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From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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References: <2ph0ut$2nc@acme.gatech.edu> <1994Apr25.220509.11893@kf8nh.wariat.org> <2pop9mINN2sl@bonnie.sax.de>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 07:06:19 GMT
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In article <2pop9mINN2sl@bonnie.sax.de> j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>
>[use dosemu or vm86() to initialize an SVGA]
>>Your way would work with unmodified XFree86; just run the BIOS setup as the
>>clock-setting program. His way requires changes to XFree86 which the XFree86
>>developers have *already* refused to make...
>
>Well, XFree developers are no gods, and if something is really useful
>and makes live easier, they certainly won't object doing so. What they
>don't do is to follow the patch-of-the-minute.
I don't remember us (XFree86) refusing to do this. If someone comes up
with a nice, reasonably portable method for XFree86 to optionally use
BIOS modes rather than modes defined in the Xconfig file, then we'd be
interested in adding it to XFree86. Something we do hope to look into
sometime is using SVPMI files (these file provide a description that
can be used by a protected-mode OS to initialise modes on a graphics
card). Don't know how many cards come with these files though -- none
of the cards I have do.
David
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