Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Ian Stirling (root@mauve.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:14:00 +0100 (BST)


Sorry about this, but I can't find my VGA programmers book, and never
did much anyway.

About stopping accelleration operations in the middle:

Why can't we just wait 10ms, for any outstanding operations to complete?
Or are there operations on some cards that may take times that are
perceptible to the user to complete?

Is it really impossible to completely re-setup the hardware, ignoring
any values that may have been there before, to get a "sane" state?

Does the bios have special abilities, or do cards power up in a special
initialisation state, with defined parameters?

I don't think cards that can be crashed enough to make them require a
power-down to work in NT, is an important part of this, it's a buggy card,
and needs replaced.

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