Fwd: Resetting secondary video adapter

Fwd: Resetting secondary video adapter

[Jon Smirl]

I have been getting requests for this. It is from the
svgalib people.....

--- Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:34:42 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Resetting secondary video adapter
> To: dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> 
> 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.
> 
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