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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2421 comp.os.linux.misc:13957 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <1994Apr25.220509.11893@kf8nh.wariat.org> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 22:05:09 GMT References: <hastyCo5p59.MvK@netcom.com> <2p6jqn$9b2@acme.gatech.edu> <2pfjmi$3j9@u.cc.utah.edu> <2ph0ut$2nc@acme.gatech.edu> Lines: 22 In article <2ph0ut$2nc@acme.gatech.edu>, gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) says: +--------------- | terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: | >In article <2p6jqn$9b2@acme.gatech.edu> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) writes: | >]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 | | >Actually, a better plan is a protected mode vm86() call so anything | >anyone wants to write in kernel space could make a BIOS call if it | >needed one. | | Okay, someone explain to me the difference between those two proposals. +------------->8 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... ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org The FUDs at Microsoft are shouting "Kill The Wabi!"