Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Kendall Bennett" <> | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:25:21 -0800 | Subject | Re: VESA FBconsole driver? |
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Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Assumed the BIOS can recover from whatever the application has done to the > graphics chipset...
If the program just crashed (and did not lock the graphics card), the BIOS can nearly always restore the screen properly. I know that from the years of doing graphics development under DOS and always using the BIOS to restore the screen when I screwed up and crashed my graphics programs ;-)
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