Fwd: Resetting secondary video adapter

I have been getting requests for this. It is from the
svgalib people.....

--- Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com> wrote:

Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:34:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Jon Smirl <redacted>
Subject: Resetting secondary video adapter
To: dri-devel <redacted>

I ran across this program for resetting secondary
adapters. 

http://www.arava.co.il/matan/svgalib/hypermail/1660.html

Inside of the download you can build vbios.vm86. The
vm86 version worked on my Rage128. The x86emu
version
runs, but doesn't reset the adapter.

I had tried hacking this code out of X86 without
success. I also tried moding lrmi. lrmi needs more
of
the bios vectors, entry points, etc set up.

There are later versions of x86emu here
ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/devel/x86emu but I can get
them to build. 

On a related note, in redhat-config-xfree86 the
probe
monitor button is always disabled on the secondary
adapter. This is because redhat-config-xfree86 uses
ddcprobe to do the configing. ddcprobe uses lrmi
which
can't handle a secondary adapter.

The code in vbios.vm86 could probably be merged into
ddcprobe/lrmi to make it work. Then it would be easy
to give ddcprobe a reset parameter too.

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