Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:24:15 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2) |
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Hi!
> I just recently thought about that (Dosemu died and took my console with > it). > > Would not something like the following be enough to always be able to > recover? > > 1. Make the kernel know how to reset the video card to a known state. This > should essentially be a string of "output X to register Y"; a user land > application could configure it via some IOCTL.
No. For many video cards, there is *NO* single sequence to reset into known state. You have to use different sequence depending on state you are on. And kernel does not know what state hw is in :-(. Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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