From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 03:05:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA10223 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 03:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA10157 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 03:05:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA27958; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:05:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199809271005.MAA27958@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: VM86 and APM In-Reply-To: <199809270917.SAA08901@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> from Kazutaka YOKOTA at "Sep 27, 98 06:17:31 pm" To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Kazutaka YOKOTA) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:05:15 +0200 (CEST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Kazutaka YOKOTA who wrote: > Does anybody know of any problem using VM86 and the apm driver together? > > Looking casually at the source code of apm.c, I realize that it tries > to use the VM86 service if available. > > However, when I boot the kernel with VM86, I get: > > apm0 not found. > > The kernel without VM86 used to detect the apm BIOS in my box all right. > > Kazu > > PS. The SMP kernel needs a slight modification in VM86 to boot the > kernel with apm or VESA service. tegge@fast.no has the fix. However, > even after his fix, the apm BIOS is not found by the kernel. Could you mail me a copy of that fix, please :) That would make life so much easier.... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message