From: "sumedh tirodkar" <sumedhtirodkar@gmail.com>
To: "Matt Sealey" <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: yaboot: text mode or graphics mode?
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:01:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d2b9ccd90901042131v2b00bd0bld7009e8d865bd9c7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <495AA4A7.409@genesi-usa.com>
Isn't there any other way that i can access the VGA registers? So as
to reconfigure them...
-Sumedh
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> wrote:
> sumedh tirodkar wrote:
>>
>> I just found out that openfirmware boots into graphics mode(non-text
>> mode). Now i wish to switch back to text mode. how do i do this?
>
> Unfortunately unless you are running some kind of yaboot-accessible or
> firmware-accessible x86 BIOS emulation, this isn't possible.
>
> --
> Matt
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-05 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-20 16:07 yaboot: text mode or graphics mode? sumedh tirodkar
2008-12-20 17:56 ` sumedh tirodkar
2008-12-30 22:45 ` Matt Sealey
2009-01-05 5:31 ` sumedh tirodkar [this message]
2009-01-06 1:04 ` Matt Sealey
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