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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@pro...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Where is vgactl?
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:43:09 +0200

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:36:18PM +0100, forsyth@vit... wrote:
> 
> aux/vga doesn't serve it; #v/vgactl is the kernel's exposed interface
> to its part of the vga graphics support.
> 
I'll always carry my first language with me and will never learn to
disambiguate English sentences.

I meant: "Would it make sense for aux/vga to set up the VGA
environment - based on a much simpler kernel device - and then serve
/dev/vga* itself?"

++L