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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1718 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:55:00 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!torn!mcshub!maccs!dsantry From: dsantry@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Doug Santry) Subject: programming the VGA with 386BSD Message-ID: <1993Feb19.231451.6605@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 23:14:51 GMT Lines: 11 I was wondering if anyone knows how to program the VGA under bsd. I want to change the videomode to one of my SVGA modes and then turn on pixels, when done return to the standard text mode. I assume that the kernel wouldn't let me write bytes to my VRAM because my session doesn't own the memory. I also don't know how to change the videomode since I would have to write to the video card's registers. Is there anyway to get the card's BIOS routines to work under bsd? I have never done any UNIX low-level programming before so some advice or a solution would be greatly appreciated. Doug Santry Dept. of Computer Science McMaster U.