Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 01:49:04 +0000 (GMT)


> BIOS. I you do a *valid* switch and then BIOS tries to do the same and fails,
> then there's something wrong with the BIOS, right? Solution - don't use BIOS

Wrong - some cards you mut know the existing set up or you break on a change.
You stick to the VESA bios you will be fine (so for your VESA bios Xserver
to/from textmode I imagine zero problems). You may find you need to replicate
the kernel saved page 0 into the mmap of your vesa bios running task.

> to set video modes at all. I doubt that any video BIOS does analysis of the
> current video mode and acts accordingly.

Wrong. In a sane world you would be correct, this is not a sane world I reget
to inform you.

Alan

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