home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.unix.sysv386:14144 comp.windows.x:16276 comp.os.linux:10078 comp.os.mach:1195 comp.unix.bsd:5239
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.os.mach,comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewsc!cbfsb!att-out!cbnewsj!dwex
- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:33:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.133347.4433@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: Diamond, free-software
- References: <eaVY02MJ20P.01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1992Sep6.210159.18607@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <lalqmgINNa96@needmore.cs.utexas.edu>
- Lines: 36
-
- In article <lalqmgINNa96@needmore.cs.utexas.edu> jrowland@cs.utexas.edu (John Richards Rowland) writes:
- >
- > I dont see the problem here. I use bios calls to set the clocks.
- > By observation, I can determine what clock settings each bios call
- > sets the PLL to. Just before Xfree86 starts, I take it apon myself
- > to make that bios call, and the bios sets the clock values to what I need.
- >
- > For example:
- > When I boot my linux system I always remember to choose the text mode
- > 100x40 in the selection list because I know that setting that text mode also
- > sets the clocks to what I want for my chosen resolution. This type of
- > trickery is uncomfortable, but it does allow me to use X on my Diamond
- > Speedstar24 using bios 5.X.
- > --
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- > primary: jrowland@cs.utexas.edu (UT CS Department)
- > secondary: jrowland@csdfx8a.arlut.utexas.edu (Applied Research Laboratory)
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- 1) Calling BIOS from a multitasking OS is trick, dangerous, and impossible
- for those of us running SVR3/4
- 2) One of the nice features of XFree86 (and X386) is the ability to switch
- resolutions via hot-key. Kiss that goodby without the clock-select
- logic
- 3) Some of us are such Unix snobs that DOS will never touch our machine.
- Having to boot DOS, then boot Unix, is an unnacceptable crock. If you
- want to do it, fine. But don't suggest that as a rational alternative.
- 4) No other manufacturer is trying to make us jump through hoops, so we just
- plain won't support the one that is.
-
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- David Wexelblat | dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com | Somebody get me a
- AT&T Bell Laboratories | ...!att!mtgzfs3!dwex | cheeseburger!
- 200 Laurel Ave - 4B-421 | |
- Middletown, NJ 07748 | (908) 957-5871 | --Steve Miller Band
-