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SubjectRe: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2)
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

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I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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