From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 14 23:27:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA11364 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 23:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA11358 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 23:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.7.3) id IAA17998; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:27:13 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199708150627.IAA17998@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: reset screen hardware? In-Reply-To: <199708140837.RAA00646@papillon.lemis.com> from "grog@lemis.com" at "Aug 14, 97 05:37:34 pm" To: grog@lemis.com Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:27:13 +0200 (MEST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to grog@lemis.com who wrote: > > Alfred: Mike's right. It's a pain, and also a can of worms. But he's > wrong when he says it can't be done. If you want to do yourself and > everybody else a service, investigate the probe and reset code in > XFree86 and figure out how to cannibalize it to save the board state > (it makes sense to have this done during boot at probe time) and > create an ioctl to use this information to reset to text mode. I can be done, sure, but it will NEVER get into the official kernel like that, I'll fight that tooth and nail. We wont have hundreds of K's of code like that in kernel space. There is hope however, there is work underways to do this via the video BIOS, and that's a totally different story... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..