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From: Jon S. <jon...@ya...> - 2003-01-10 19:49:57
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I have been getting requests for this. It is from the svgalib people..... --- Jon Smirl <jon...@ya...> wrote: > Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:34:42 -0800 (PST) > From: Jon Smirl <jon...@ya...> > Subject: Resetting secondary video adapter > To: dri-devel <dri...@li...> > > I ran across this program for resetting secondary > adapters. > http://www.arava.co.il/matan/svgalib/hypermail/1660.html > Inside of the download you can build vbios.vm86. The > vm86 version worked on my Rage128. The x86emu > version > runs, but doesn't reset the adapter. > > I had tried hacking this code out of X86 without > success. I also tried moding lrmi. lrmi needs more > of > the bios vectors, entry points, etc set up. > > There are later versions of x86emu here > ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/devel/x86emu but I can get > them to build. > > On a related note, in redhat-config-xfree86 the > probe > monitor button is always disabled on the secondary > adapter. This is because redhat-config-xfree86 uses > ddcprobe to do the configing. ddcprobe uses lrmi > which > can't handle a secondary adapter. > > The code in vbios.vm86 could probably be merged into > ddcprobe/lrmi to make it work. Then it would be easy > to give ddcprobe a reset parameter too. > > ===== > Jon Smirl > jon...@ya... > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > ===== Jon Smirl jon...@ya... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com |