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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Broadcom drivers, yet again
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:41:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2607778defa8b3b89e6ce54cf4898a6@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb0902f2c8fbfe6697c30dd9b9062e34@coraid.com>

>>     - Thanks to VESA support, almost all graphic cards are working 
>> (except you can have
>>     some freezes because realmode doesn't work well with mp).
> 
> doesn't work at all.  you can't switch to real mode with an mp system.
> it may be possible to switch to vm86 with an mp system, but i haven't
> tried.

If you are saying that vesa can't be used with mp, I don't think that's right:

term% grep cpu /dev/kmesg
cpu0: 998MHz CentaurHauls Via C3 Eden-N (cpuid: AX 0x069A DX 0x381BA3F)
cpu1: 997MHz CentaurHauls Via C3 Eden-N (cpuid: AX 0x069A DX 0x381BA3F)
term% grep type /dev/vgactl
type vesa


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-24 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-21 12:33 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 12:44 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 13:34   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 13:55     ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 14:03   ` Steve Simon
2007-10-21 14:06     ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 14:24       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 14:30         ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 14:35           ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 15:51       ` Jack Johnson
2007-10-22  7:32         ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-22 14:10           ` Jack Johnson
2007-10-22 14:23             ` ron minnich
2007-10-22 14:45               ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-22 14:41             ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-22 14:59               ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-22 15:04                 ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-24 10:41                 ` Richard Miller [this message]
2007-10-24 12:32                   ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-24 13:27                     ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-26  8:34                     ` Richard Miller

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