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From: jprem@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (jeffrey.prem)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: dot graphics on a 6386WGS
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.234706.2924@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 1 Feb 91 23:47:06 GMT
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(Sorry, I misplaced the article number, etc.)

   >From: gls@odyssey.att.com (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
   >Subject: dot graphics on a 6386WGS
   >Organization: Save the Dodoes Foundation
   >Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 21:25:45 GMT
   >
   >Has anybody succeeded in using dot graphics on a 6386WGS?  When I
   >call KDSETMODE I get EINVAL, and when I call KDMAPDISP I get EACCES.
   >The board is an EGA.

You need to do a modeswitch ioctl before the KDMAPDISP.  The
modeswitch values are defined in "/usr/include/sys/kd.h" and begin
with "SW_".

Have fun,
Jeff
-- 
Jeff Prem (jprem@attunix.att.com)
OS Desktop Development Group
UNIX System Laboratories, Inc., A Subsidiary of AT&T