FreeBSD Real Mode interface

Anish Mistry amistry at united-ware.com
Wed Feb 1 09:39:02 PST 2006


On Tuesday 31 January 2006 03:35, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:04:46AM +0600, Dmitry Frolov wrote:
> > * Loren M. Lang <lorenl at alzatex.com> [28.01.2006 13:09]:
> > > 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.
> >
> > LRMI <http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrmi> should work
> > on FreeBSD since version 0.8. And here is my FreeBSD/NetBSD patch
> > for atitvout (with instructions inside):
> >
> > http://kaya.nov.net/frol/patches/atitvout-0.4-bsd2.diff
>
> Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for.  Now I can truly
> ditch linux off my laptop.
The ports that I created for lrmi and atitvout have just been 
committed to the ports tree.  Enjoy.
sysutils/atitvout

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Anish Mistry
UnitedWare, LLC
amistry at united-ware.com

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