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Date:      Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:49:38 -0300
From:      "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Current" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Why VESA and DPMS are available only for i386?
Message-ID:  <e71790db0809021849q1c22690sec4f3c6e7f5f8b34@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello,

Several PRs were closed based on the argument that FreeBSD/amd64
cannot call to the VESA BIOS. XFree86 solved this problem by means of
the INT10 module. I believe that it would be possible to do the same
on the FreeBSD kernel.

Is there any ongoing effort to enable the VESA kernel moule on
non-i386 platform? Is there any particular difficulty for doing this,
besides depending on VM86?

-- 
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life
make clean



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