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Subject: Re: [9front] termrc and aux/realemu
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> I don't like shell script, however, I think I kew this.
> Why you don't need /dev/realmode?

Well, consider the problem /dev/realmode is solving. How many times in an
average session do you need to interrogate your VESA BIOS? As cinap explained,
there is no reason to keep it around after graphics are initialized.


> I had to set up which mode is supported by my AMD card,
> then, I did
> aux/vga -i
> then, I was said there is no /dev/realmode...

All you need to do in this case is start realemu again before running aux/vga.
This is all explained in the realemu(8) man page.

sl