Re: [Oz-ISP] FreeBSD and the forces of darkness. Real religiouswars! (fwd)

2000-06-17 Thread Kris Kirby
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Mike Nowlin wrote: Maybe I'll have my graphics guy whip up a picture of Tux with horns and holding a pitchfork (Actually, I think I've seen something like that before.) http://www.satanic.org/cframe1.gif or http://www.satanic.org/corner.htm - Kris Kirby,

BIOS interruption calls in C under freebsd for graphics

2000-06-17 Thread Nicolau Werneck
hi! I'm trying to make a little graphical program, and I'm thinking in use the (IBM 80486) BIOS interruptions to set the video mode and put pixels on the screen (I'm looking for better solutions.. anyone?). I used to do this under DOS But I observed that FreeBSD (surprisingly! :) )

Re: BIOS interruption calls in C under freebsd for graphics

2000-06-17 Thread Dutch Collins
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Nicolau Werneck wrote: Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:57:34 -0300 From: Nicolau Werneck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BIOS interruption calls in C under freebsd for graphics hi! I'm trying to make a little graphical program, and

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2000-06-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Can we have ^L removing any "skipping" line? Since it's redrawing, anyway, I don't see the point of preserving that, and it's certainly annoying to have a split screen. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This door is baroquen,

Re: BIOS interruption calls in C under freebsd for graphics

2000-06-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Nicolau Werneck wrote: hi! I'm trying to make a little graphical program, and I'm thinking in use the (IBM 80486) BIOS interruptions to set the video mode and put pixels on the screen (I'm looking for better solutions.. anyone?). You can't. Try man libvgl (maybe just vgl) for graphics

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-17 Thread void
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:29:53PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: If your customer's not _desperate_ for a super-low-cost solution, I'd suggest any of the Intel boards that offer EMP (most of these also offer BIOS-over-serial support, actually - as do a number of other vendors, IIRC AMI do this

Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?

2000-06-17 Thread Kurt J. Lidl
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 06:13:32PM +0100, void wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:29:53PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: If your customer's not _desperate_ for a super-low-cost solution, I'd suggest any of the Intel boards that offer EMP (most of these also offer BIOS-over-serial support,

Re: use of '#pragma weak...'

2000-06-17 Thread Matthew Jacob
Thanks for the comment about #pragma good point, since we use nothing but the GNU tools. It turns out I won't be using this mechanism, but I saved the mail in my freebsd/info folder. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-17 Thread David Greenman
So, I repeat: easily done, not acceptable to freebsd core. As has been mentioned by several people already, 'freebsd core' hasn't discussed this as a group and hasn't made any declaration of acceptabilty. That said, I'll say (as a core member, but representing only myself) that I think

Re: 3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-17 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's the address of the 3dfx device driver I wrote for freebsd: http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~cokane/ Please test it some more and give me feedback. Could someone please email me with information on submitting this to the CVS commit team? did you

Re: 3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-17 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's the address of the 3dfx device driver I wrote for freebsd: http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~cokane/ Please test it some more and give me feedback. Could someone please email m e with information on submitting this to the CVS commit team? did

RE: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive

2000-06-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 15-Jun-00 Jeff Kreska wrote: I tryed to install FreeBSD 3.3,3.4, and 4.0 release on the last three gig of a 25 gig drive with no success. After an install attempt the partition table of my disk is corrupt. Now it is so screwed up that Partition Magic cant read it. Through testing I

RE: BIOS interruption calls in C under freebsd for graphics

2000-06-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 17-Jun-00 Nicolau Werneck wrote: hi! I'm trying to make a little graphical program, and I'm thinking in use the (IBM 80486) BIOS interruptions to set the video mode and put pixels on the screen (I'm looking for better solutions.. anyone?). I used to do this under DOS But I

Re: 3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-17 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 07:51:38PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Seeing as how it has been a link on Daemon News' front page for several months, I find that hard to believe. :-P ... and mentioned countless times in various mailing lists. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer

Re: 3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-17 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 07:51:38PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: Seeing as how it has been a link on Daemon News' front page for several months, I find that hard to believe. :-P ... and mentioned countless times in various mailing lists. And

Re: 3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-17 Thread Coleman Kane
If this is the driver that has been up there for awhile, I was told by the author it didn't work. I used some of his code, namely for the ioctls. The author actually contacted me and wanted to know about this. His driver was written for an older version of FreeBSD and wasn't newbussified at all.