On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 06:01:42PM -0400, Michael wrote: >Hello, > >> >I don't see why they should be enabled - they're PC-specific and even >> >with x86 emulation they would be pretty much useless since you're not >> >too likely to encounter a graphics board with PC firmware in a Mac ( >> >or other PowerPC boxes ) >> >> Wrong. No hardware manufacturer in their right mind would build a >> Mac-only PCI graphics board, with the possible exception of Apple. > >What the hell are you talking about? VESA BIOS is x86 only. Int10 is PC >only. > >> They're going to build a generic graphics board that works in a PC and >> by the way also works in a Mac. Such a board will have a video BIOS. > >Wrong. >A Mac graphics board will have an OpenFirmware driver and possibly a >MacOS driver in ROM, not a VESA BIOS.
Is the implication here that plugging a PC PCI graphics card into a powerpc machine will never work (as a secondary display), even if the software driving it knows how to initialise it in the absence of OpenFirmware? David _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
