Re: Linux and virili (was BOUNCED something, something
Tuukka Toivonen (tuukkat@stekt.oulu.fi)
Tue, 11 Feb 1997 15:47:38 +0200 (EET)
>What would be the risks in making the registers writable by anyone who has
>the rights to open the VGA device? The only two I can think of are 1) that
>someone might be able to peek at the contents of the console screen and 2)
>that someone could write a hostile program to block others from using the
>console.
There is also risk 3) The display could be damaged physically. Yes, some
(bigger) displays can be even damaged by setting bad values in VGA control
signal frequency registers.
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