Hi Ron, 2007/2/26, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alan, this is an interesting idea.
yes, I think it is a good idea too although some friends said me it is a crazy idea :) >I wonder how I would replicate your > setup in order to try to replicate your problem? A way to you replicate this problem is: start LinuxBIOS with video support (from original VGA ROM BIOS), then run kdrive (Xvesa) or even try to start XFree with Driver "vesa" in Device Section of XF86Config or xorg.conf. I am using Tyan s2850 with onboard ATI Rage XL. > I am not sure why > this is happening, UNLESS ... does Xvesa make some assumptions about > the location of tables or information it uses to start up? What does > Xvesa do? The only VESA stuff I know about (in plan 9) might be > dependent on a fixed BIOS location for some things. > The Xvesa assuption is just to find the interrupt vector pointing to some area inside the 0xC000 segment, but I don't figure out it. I am not an X server and kdrive expert, maybe Keith Packard can answer it. Finally I get sucess to start X11 inside LinuxBIOS, I make a work around just "hard coding" the right segment and offset in vm86.c. After I will record a video and place in youtube to others people see it. I hope we can create something like the Phoenix BIOS to read email and browser web. > ron > Best regards, Alan -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
