> I am > wondering if there's possible to use the VGA BIOS emulation support > used in Bochs (http://bochs.sf.net) to do anything usual with (cheap!) > PCI video cards on Linux/SPARC. I *do* need dual head and graphics > improvement on the U10, and I can't afford Sun hardware :( I'm in a very similar boat. I have several dual and quad head PCI graphics cards I'd like to use with both some Linux/x86 machines and with Linux/SPARC boxen. One of the problems with this is although they are standard graphics chips (and as I understand it you can configure X to use certain memory/PCI addresses so they could be used) they need something from the BIOS to get them going - PC BIOS don't seem to get them running correctly and obviously OpenBoot won't touch them. I was thinking of hand disassembling the BIOS code from them and then translating it itno something more sensible and / or looking at the initalisation code in the windows drivers.
This seems to be the only limit on being able to run an arbitrary number of graphics cards (even if they are just in bog standard VGA emulation mode or even if they are console only) in any box. Unless ofcourse anyone knows differently... in the breif research I've done apart from some arcane pokes to the driver chips to set them up (either from the drivers or the BIOS on the card) I can't see any reason why this wouldn't work.... Cheers, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Seasons change, things come to pass"
