From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6B29A927-0CFC-49E3-A356-F9D2E46FE4D3@storytotell.org> References: <13426df10908030930gf9a6639g5ace1ba59cb5a8b1@mail.gmail.com> <6B29A927-0CFC-49E3-A356-F9D2E46FE4D3@storytotell.org> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:26:37 -0700 Message-ID: <13426df10908040826j17746ffbs99f6187490495edc@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 38351d92-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Daniel Lyons 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