On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, chiangyj wrote: > LinuxBios replace normal BIOS with its own BIOS, > so it can't drive VGA card like normal initialization(find the VGA card, > map VGA BIOS to system memory, then call initialize routine)
It can and does. It is a build option. Buy many VGA card BIOSes do illegal actions so we do not support them. > 1. Use BIOS emulator: Run VGA BIOS in BIOS emulator and you > can drive it like normal initialization. BIOS emulator's job is to take > appropriate actions(hardware-dependent actions, eg. access VGA register) we do that too, there is a supplied program to do this. It needs some work. > 2. Use matroxfb: Because it can intiailize VGA without VGA BIOS. We also do that. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
