Re: sak-2.1.131.diff

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:04:59 +0000 (GMT)

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> > There must be some standard way to tell the video card to go back to 80x25
> > textmode. At least on the i386 architecture. Unfortunately I don't
> > enough about video card programming to know what that would be.
>
> There is only one safe standard way I know of. Pressing the reset button
> if your computer has one ... it's virtually impossible to do it in software.

Pressing the reset button isnt always sufficient. The soft CPU reset isnt
propogated to the ISA bus on some machines. Thats why if an ne2000 card
crashes on you you often have to hit the BRS

Alan

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