From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 00:19:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA10471 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:19:33 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA10308 ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:18:33 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA14773; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 09:15:13 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA13549; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 09:14:31 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA11687; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 08:44:03 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511160744.IAA11687@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: "Bug" in syscons? To: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 08:44:03 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511152304.AA228256671@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from "Darryl Okahata" at Nov 15, 95 03:04:30 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 659 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Darryl Okahata wrote: > > The patch was developed by reading the pcvt source and checking the > changes against some slightly vague info in two different books (I've > forgotten the exact titles, but one was a book on VGA graphics > programming by Michael Abrash). You must state which portion of pcvt you've been reading: pcvt has some basic knowledge of different SVGA's, in order to allow for 132-column operation. So pcvt sometimes performs hardware-specific additional operations. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)