From: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Subject: Re: VESA FBconsole driver?
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:25:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E71AE11.29314.4B46B5D@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0303141114210.3569-100000@vervain.sonytel.be>
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Assumed the BIOS can recover from whatever the application has done to the
> graphics chipset...
If the program just crashed (and did not lock the graphics card), the
BIOS can nearly always restore the screen properly. I know that from the
years of doing graphics development under DOS and always using the BIOS
to restore the screen when I screwed up and crashed my graphics programs
;-)
Regards,
---
Kendall Bennett
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SciTech Software, Inc.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-14 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-12 16:07 "Cross" compilation for s390x Pete Zaitcev
2003-03-12 19:07 ` VESA FBconsole driver? Kendall Bennett
2003-03-13 21:31 ` Kendall Bennett
2003-03-13 22:11 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-03-13 23:41 ` Kendall Bennett
2003-03-14 10:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-14 18:25 ` Kendall Bennett [this message]
2003-03-14 10:21 ` Helge Hafting
2003-03-13 22:24 ` Gerd Knorr
2003-03-13 23:41 ` Kendall Bennett
2003-03-14 10:15 ` Helge Hafting
2003-03-14 18:25 ` Kendall Bennett
2003-03-15 18:04 ` Helge Hafting
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