Subject: Re: CVS commit: xsrc
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/16/1999 11:30:01
On Sun, 16 May 1999 13:33:37 -0400 (EDT) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > : This all needs to be done w/ e.g. wscons ioctls, some of which may need
 > : to be invented.
 > 
 > `Yes, I know.'
 > 
 > This was a band-aid solution to get i386, which has a Lot of users, running.
 > 
 > Truthfully, the best solution will be a fix to bsd-video.c which doesn't
 > error out of Xf86SetRGBMode() - and just keeps on going even if it `fails'.
 > However, I want to consider some of the implications of that ... and
 > consider the possibility of a kernel addition to wscons.

Actually, I think I misspoke... you want an XFree86.config keyword for
the output to be used on the video card...

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>