From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 29 04:06:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA02508 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 04:06:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ra.dkuug.dk (ra.dkuug.dk [193.88.44.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA02498 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 04:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ra.dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA06265; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:06:16 +0200 Message-Id: <199608291106.NAA06265@ra.dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: Specs on a Hitachi CM2085me monitor anybody ?? To: regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org (Philippe Regnauld) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:06:16 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: durham@ra.dkuug.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608290926.LAA04285@tetard.glou.eu.org> from "Philippe Regnauld" at Aug 29, 96 11:26:12 am From: sos@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Philippe Regnauld who wrote: > > Jim Durham écrit / writes: > > > Any suggestions on where documentation on BIOS video modes may > > be lurking on the net? Hmm, I think there is some stuff about in in the vgadoc4b.zip archive (I think that is the latest), if thats not the case there probably are some references that can be usefull... > > Of course, the absolute topper would be to hack the BIOS rom so that > > it natively boots to something your monitor can handle! ;-) . > > Well, a shareware BIOS (Dr.Bios) exists out there -- does it come > with sources ? You don't need to hack the video BIOS (its the one on the video card you would want to change not the motherboard one :) ), it should do it by makeing an extra BIOS rom whith the needed code in it, at let it register AFTER the std video BIOS has done its trick. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time.