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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question
Date: Tue,  4 Aug 2009 08:26:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10908040826j17746ffbs99f6187490495edc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6B29A927-0CFC-49E3-A356-F9D2E46FE4D3@storytotell.org>

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Daniel Lyons<fusion@storytotell.org> wrote:

> I don't know how to obtain this information, but would be glad to supply it.
> Also, forgive my ignorance, but isn't there a chicken-and-egg problem, since
> if the MTRRs are set up in vgavesa.c, my display is unusable? Or is there a
> special way to bail out to the text mode when the display is screwed up?

Change the code to tell you what it would do to the mtrrs and then not
start up graphics but exit instead.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-02  9:36 Daniel Lyons
2009-08-02 17:06 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-02 19:14   ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-02 20:41     ` Steve Simon
2009-08-02 21:41     ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-03  6:57       ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-03  9:26         ` Richard Miller
2009-08-03 11:20           ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-04  2:36             ` geoff
2009-08-04  3:12               ` David Leimbach
2009-08-04  7:18                 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-04  7:25                 ` Bakul Shah
2009-08-04 12:47                   ` David Leimbach
2009-08-04 15:20                     ` Bakul Shah
2009-08-04 15:25                       ` David Leimbach
2009-08-04 16:24                         ` Bakul Shah
2009-08-04 17:46                           ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-12  6:18                             ` Bakul Shah
2009-08-04  8:54             ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-04  9:04               ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-03 16:30           ` ron minnich
2009-08-04  7:15             ` Daniel Lyons
2009-08-04 15:26               ` ron minnich [this message]
2009-08-03  9:13 ` Balwinder S Dheeman

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