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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2367 comp.os.linux.misc:13310 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <hastyConEu9.HnA@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <hastyCo5p59.MvK@netcom.com> <2p72cm$278@eve.adam.com.au> <2p6jqn$9b2@acme.gatech.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 06:46:56 GMT Lines: 36 In article <2p6jqn$9b2@acme.gatech.edu> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) writes: >steve@adam.com.au (Stephen White) writes: > >>Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote: >>: You are right that I was asking for a dosemu in the past. >>: My sole purpose was to provide a mechanism to initialize >>: devices such as SVGA cards. > >>You wanted a DOS emulator to initialise SVGA cards? >>Like, the startup script for X would have "dosemu -c INITSVGA.EXE" in it? >>Your middle name isn't "Othmar" by any chance? > >No, what he's saying isn't ridiculous at all. Having a way to run the >vendor-supplied VGA BIOS to initialize the cards with proprietary and >undocumented (or only documented with an NDA) hardware would be a good >thing for many people. It's still a good idea, but I don't have the >time or need or desire to work on it, and everyone else knows better. > Hang on a minute here, we still need such a feature real bad . I can tell you that I have NO *freaking* desire to provide support to initialize new SVGA cards is getting trickier and as the cards get more expensive --- well you can imagine the rest. Maybe we should have the original poster provide *free* service to do the low level initialization of cards, talk to manufacturers, risk his own equipment -- I own a $1200 monitor, etc.. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X