On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 04:32:26PM +0100, Florian Stöhr wrote:
> hi,
> 
> when x-server shuts down, it doesn't restore the VGA palette for
> textmode correct. so when i run X once, everything gets a bit darken.
> after the second session, i see black characters on a black background.
> 
> since i don't want to su and reboot "blind" or via telnet every two
> sessions: is there any command to force the OS to reload the pallete
> info from the adapter ROM?

I don't think so :(

> 
> in former times on DOS i used debug with a simple MOV AX,3  INT 10, but
> i don't want to try this with NetBSD...

There would need to be some support in the kernel for that.
It can already use the BIOS for a few things (like apm) so maybe it's easy
to add. Also, X drivers like the S3 savage, can also call the adapter's
BIOS ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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