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Xref: sserve comp.unix.sysv386:23442 comp.windows.x:44836 comp.os.linux:9456 comp.os.mach:2085 comp.unix.bsd:4674 Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.os.mach,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewsc!cbfsb!att-out!cbnewsj!dwex From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products Organization: AT&T Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:33:47 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep7.133347.4433@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> Keywords: Diamond, free-software References: <eaVY02MJ20P.01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1992Sep6.210159.18607@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <lalqmgINNa96@needmore.cs.utexas.edu> Lines: 36 In article <lalqmgINNa96@needmore.cs.utexas.edu> jrowland@cs.utexas.edu (John Richards Rowland) writes: > > I dont see the problem here. I use bios calls to set the clocks. > By observation, I can determine what clock settings each bios call > sets the PLL to. Just before Xfree86 starts, I take it apon myself > to make that bios call, and the bios sets the clock values to what I need. > > For example: > When I boot my linux system I always remember to choose the text mode > 100x40 in the selection list because I know that setting that text mode also > sets the clocks to what I want for my chosen resolution. This type of > trickery is uncomfortable, but it does allow me to use X on my Diamond > Speedstar24 using bios 5.X. > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > primary: jrowland@cs.utexas.edu (UT CS Department) > secondary: jrowland@csdfx8a.arlut.utexas.edu (Applied Research Laboratory) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Calling BIOS from a multitasking OS is trick, dangerous, and impossible for those of us running SVR3/4 2) One of the nice features of XFree86 (and X386) is the ability to switch resolutions via hot-key. Kiss that goodby without the clock-select logic 3) Some of us are such Unix snobs that DOS will never touch our machine. Having to boot DOS, then boot Unix, is an unnacceptable crock. If you want to do it, fine. But don't suggest that as a rational alternative. 4) No other manufacturer is trying to make us jump through hoops, so we just plain won't support the one that is. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- David Wexelblat | dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com | Somebody get me a AT&T Bell Laboratories | ...!att!mtgzfs3!dwex | cheeseburger! 200 Laurel Ave - 4B-421 | | Middletown, NJ 07748 | (908) 957-5871 | --Steve Miller Band