On Saturday 28 January 2006 05:15, you wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 04:03:34AM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > > On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:10, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > > Is there any equivalent to the Linux Real Mode interface in > > > FreeBSD? I would like to port a program called atitvout to > > > FreeBSD, but it uses calls to the vesa bios in real mode on the > > > x86 arch. I can't seem to find out how to do this in FreeBSD. > > > > If you're trying to do tvout with your mach64 chipset, the Xorg > > config file options work. > > First of all, this is not confurable after Xorg has started, AFAIK. Right.
> Secondly, when Xorg does autodetect the S-Video connection, it > loads the screen on both the LCD and S-Video interface which my > video card does not like very well. Hmmm...my card doesn't. What I do is have a separate ServerLayou section for the SVIDEO out. I think use a script that I run when I want to run the SVIDEO out. It can be run while X is running on the LCD panel. It will start a new display and session on the TV. http://am-productions.biz/docs/xorg.conf http://am-productions.biz/docs/tvout > Linux has the exact same > issue, the only solution was to make sure the s-video connection > was unplugged during Xorg startup and plug it in afterwards. Then > use atitvout to switch over to the s-video and shut the lcd signal > off. If Xorg can do this after it's started then I might try that. > > > -- > > Anish Mistry -- Anish Mistry
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