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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1704 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:54:27 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!mcshub!maccs!dsantry From: dsantry@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Doug Santry) Subject: Accessing the VGA in 386BSD Message-ID: <1993Feb19.190256.1247@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 19:02:56 GMT Lines: 10 Hi, I was wondering if anyone out there knows how to access the VGA in bsd. I want to change the videomode to a super-vga mode, draw my stuff, then return to standard text mode. I assume the kernel won't let you simply access the VGA yourself and protects it. Turning on a pixel involves writing a byte to the VGA, in other words accessing memory that your session doesn't own. Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have never done any low-level UNIX programming before so this is perplexing. thankx