From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Fwd: Resetting secondary video adapter Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:48:53 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030110194853.22138.qmail@web14904.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from web14904.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.225.56]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18X5AD-0003Kx-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:49:57 -0800 Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: fbdev I have been getting requests for this. It is from the svgalib people..... --- Jon Smirl wrote: > Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:34:42 -0800 (PST) > From: Jon Smirl > Subject: Resetting secondary video adapter > To: dri-devel > > I ran across this program for resetting secondary > adapters. > http://www.arava.co.il/matan/svgalib/hypermail/1660.html > Inside of the download you can build vbios.vm86. The > vm86 version worked on my Rage128. The x86emu > version > runs, but doesn't reset the adapter. > > I had tried hacking this code out of X86 without > success. I also tried moding lrmi. lrmi needs more > of > the bios vectors, entry points, etc set up. > > There are later versions of x86emu here > ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/devel/x86emu but I can get > them to build. > > On a related note, in redhat-config-xfree86 the > probe > monitor button is always disabled on the secondary > adapter. This is because redhat-config-xfree86 uses > ddcprobe to do the configing. ddcprobe uses lrmi > which > can't handle a secondary adapter. > > The code in vbios.vm86 could probably be merged into > ddcprobe/lrmi to make it work. Then it would be easy > to give ddcprobe a reset parameter too. > > ===== > Jon Smirl > jonsmirl@yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > ===== Jon Smirl jonsmirl@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com