From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 31 11:07:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03744 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 11:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA03737; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 11:07:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA17618; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 12:03:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 12:03:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199608311803.MAA17618@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Terry Lambert Cc: sos@freebsd.org, durham@phaeton.artisoft.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Specs on a Hitachi CM2085me monitor anybody ?? In-Reply-To: <199608311705.KAA04005@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199608310812.KAA22247@DeepCore.dk> <199608311705.KAA04005@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Terry hit my hot button here ] > > Hmm, I'm afraid there is no easy way out here. You can get a pointer > > to the "standard" mode table (thats what syscons does), but setting > > the card specific modes is (surprice) card specific.. > > The data about the card is simply not well abstracted from the code > that implements the INT 10 interface. > > And once again we discover why EE's should not be hired to write > video BIOS. Cheap generalization. I'll take on 95% of the CS grads. who graduated in 94 in a usability/readability contest. Most EE's I'm awae of who program are pretty decent nowadays, and most CS types who graduates a few years back are just as bad as the EE's. :) Proud Electrical Engineer, Nate - You can't spell Geek w/out two E's. :)