From: "Thorsten Glaser Geuer" <eccesys@topmail.de>
To: "Boris Pisarcik" <boris@acheron.sk>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Basic Text Mode (was: Re: Question about SysRq)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:35:56 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000201c0bb97$6c4e4ae0$de00a8c0@homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010331230454.A801@Boris>
> Thought, i really love all sysrq properties of linux, so i need less often
> to make hardware resets an then await and fear, what fsck will print.
101% ACK
> One more property, that i'd like to have should be request key to force the
> most basic text mode (say 80x25) on the console, when eg. X freezes and
> i kill its session, then last gfx mode resides on the screen and see no way
> to restore back the text mode - /usr/bin/reset or something alike will not
> do it. But it seems to be not a good idea at all, does it ?
It is a very good idea, and to implement quite easy. You just do have to
diff between three types of video cards (MDA, MGA and HGC vs. CGA and AGA vs. EGA+).
Then you do direct register writes. For the HGC I did it recently in a DOS proggy
which switched from text to gfx and back. I had a TSR which simulated a gfx BIOS.
Only problem is, I lost the source. But I could rewrite and test it on request.
I even would put it under GPL for the kernel (normally this is a no-no for me),
just ask me. I will write it in NASM then because I can't the AT&T syntax.
For non-i386 Platforms I do not know about this topic. (IIRC the Apples didnt
even have a text mode)
Maybe I could look up the EGA register values somewhere.
-mirabilos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-02 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-31 21:04 Question about SysRq Boris Pisarcik
2001-04-02 16:35 ` Thorsten Glaser Geuer [this message]
2001-04-04 7:44 ` Basic Text Mode (was: Re: Question about SysRq) Boris Pisarcik
2001-04-02 23:59 ` Question about SysRq Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-04-04 0:39 ` Boris Pisarcik
2001-04-03 22:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-04-12 18:51 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
[not found] ` <m2n1a1pj8r.fsf@boreas.yi.org.>
2001-04-04 7:12 ` Boris Pisarcik
2001-04-03 2:59 Basic Text Mode (was: Re: Question about SysRq) James Simmons
2001-04-04 7:57 ` Boris Pisarcik
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