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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2389 comp.os.linux.misc:13535 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!charnel!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 29 Apr 1994 03:37:18 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2ppvde$4ch@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <2pfjmi$3j9@u.cc.utah.edu> <2ph0ut$2nc@acme.gatech.edu> <1994Apr25.220509.11893@kf8nh.wariat.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <1994Apr25.220509.11893@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: [ ... using dosemu vs using vm86() perform BIOS-based video card setup ... ] ]Your way would work with unmodified XFree86; just run the BIOS setup as the ]clock-setting program. His way requires changes to XFree86 which the XFree86 ]developers have *already* refused to make... You apparently misunderstand what I have proposed. Let me explain it in short sentences. You implement a vm86() call in the BSD kernel. This is easier than implementing a DOS emulator. You write a BSD clock set program using it. You call the BSD clock set program from XFree86. You do *NOT* need to change XFree86. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.