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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1790 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:58:14 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!sun4nl!ctisbv!pim From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) Subject: Re: programming the VGA with 386BSD Message-ID: <1993Feb20.232342.519@cti-software.nl> Organization: CTI Software BV, The Hague, The Netherlands References: <1993Feb19.231451.6605@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 93 23:23:42 GMT Lines: 20 dsantry@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Doug Santry) writes: >I was wondering if anyone knows how to program the VGA under bsd. I >want to change the videomode to one of my SVGA modes and then turn >on pixels, when done return to the standard text mode. I assume that the >kernel wouldn't let me write bytes to my VRAM because my session doesn't >own the memory. I also don't know how to change the videomode since I would >have to write to the video card's registers. Is there anyway to get the >card's BIOS routines to work under bsd? I have never done any UNIX low-level >programming before so some advice or a solution would be greatly appreciated. You don't mention which SVGA card you want to use. If it's an et4000 you may be able to port the et4000 library written by John Temples and posted to alt.sources and comp.sources.misc. It was written for System V, though. -- Pim Zandbergen domain : pim@cti-software.nl CTI Software BV uucp : uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!ctisbv!pim Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 3542302 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 3512837