On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 15:56, Antony Stone wrote: > On Tuesday 10 September 2002 2:14 am, ollie lho wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 23:50, Antony Stone wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I'm using LinuxBios on an SiS630 motherboard (PC-Chips M810L). > > > > > > Is is essential to use the framebuffer device for video output under > > > LinuxBios, or can I boot it into a 'standard VGA' mode ? > > > > > > I tried changing HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER=1 to =0 and also removing it entirely > > > from my config file, but I just got no video output at all - the serial > > > port told me everything else was starting up okay though. > > > > Do you want VGA frame buffer or not ?? If you want framebuffer for SiS > > 630, you have to enable SiSFB Lite in the SiS LinuxBIOS patch. > > Yes, I can do that, and the framebuffer works fine. > > What I'm asking is whether I can boot LinuxBios *without* using the > framebuffer device, and still get a display ? ie what you'd normally get on > a 'standard' (non-LinuxBios) Linux machine if you didn't select framebuffer > output. >
No. You have to use framebuffer. LinuxBIOS does not init VGA. Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
