Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2) | Date | 10 Dec 1997 13:03:03 GMT |
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Followup to: <199712100251.VAA15925@jupiter.cs.uml.edu> By author: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > 1. Make the kernel know how to reset the video card to a known state. > > You can go from a known state to a known state. > You can go from any state to an unknown state -- useless. > Sorry, you can't get to a known state from an unknown state. >
Sure you can. It's pretty common to do so. In fact, whenever you initialize hardware, this is usually exactly what you do.
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