On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 17:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could someone explain the different VGA options with LinuxBIOS? > > I've read the testbios FAQ items. This seems to be a utility program > that can be run after the system comes up to initialize a VGA card. Then > I suppose one could open an X window. > > Then there are several LinuxBIOS Options that mention VGA: > VGABIOS_START
This one is obsolete, it was used for VIA/EPIA only. I am going to remove it soon. > PCI_VGA_RAM_IMAGE_START This is were the VGABIOS is copy to in DRAM. By PCI spec, it should be 0xC0000 for x86. > CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA This control if you are going to use VGA console. If it is enable, you can read message from VGA screen instead of serial console. > CONFIG_LEGACY_VGABIOS > This one is obsolete too like VGABIOS_START. > Some VGA options are more useful than others. For example, > CONFIG_LEGACY_VGABIOS does not seem to be used. > I see CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA enables logging to the VGA. > Could someone write a FAQ describing how to make CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA > work? > Thanks. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxBIOS mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios -- Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Los Alamos National Lab _______________________________________________ LinuxBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
