From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Where is vgactl?
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:43:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011026184309.B20412@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011026153104.AC35119A2F@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from forsyth@vitanuova.com on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:36:18PM +0100
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:36:18PM +0100, forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:
>
> aux/vga doesn't serve it; #v/vgactl is the kernel's exposed interface
> to its part of the vga graphics support.
>
I'll always carry my first language with me and will never learn to
disambiguate English sentences.
I meant: "Would it make sense for aux/vga to set up the VGA
environment - based on a much simpler kernel device - and then serve
/dev/vga* itself?"
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-26 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-26 15:36 forsyth
2001-10-26 16:01 ` [9fans] charon / tcp pasthrough sniffing Matt
2001-11-06 10:32 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-10-26 16:43 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-26 15:09 [9fans] Where is vgactl? Russ Cox
2001-10-26 16:38 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-26 11:35 forsyth
2001-10-26 12:06 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-26 14:06 ` Matt Senecal
2001-10-26 9:24 Matt Senecal
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