Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ron minnich wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Richard Smith wrote: > > > >> Can some kind soul give me or point me to info on what the current status is > >> and what I going to need to do to get it all up? > > vgabios/testbios is currently a linux program, not built into linuxbios at > > all. That's the emulator. We want to make it a linuxbios device soon. > > The vgabios support code will run a vgabios directly. It is built into > > linuxbios. Which one did you want? > > I (and my customer) want to see the screen light up at boot so I guess I need > the direct vgabios support. I seem to remember trying to use it about 6 months > ago but I never could get it to compile and since ADLO worked I didn't continue > that path. I'm using a 440BX chipset. > > Does success under the emulator indicate the level of success for the direct > support or are they totally different? Will it be of use to boot the board up > headless and run the emulator to see what happens?
There are some ATI framebuffer drivers that think they know how to initialize a card from one of those. It may be worth trying the emulator. If we have open source code that can init your video chip there are a lot of interesting things that can be done. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
