From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Sun 14 Apr 2002 - 16:55:58 IDT
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> My application needs to perform vga_setmode(mode) or vga_setmode(TEXT) sometimes
> when background. So I switch from graphics mode to another console, the application
> changes to text mode, and then I switch back after a while to see that there is
> a textmode subprocess running there.
>
> Is this possible?
No. In 1.9 there is no background execution support at all. The support
in 1.4 does block on most vga_ calls that touch the hardware, including
vga_setmode().
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