On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 13:55:44 -0800, Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:38:06PM -0800, Jay Lewis wrote:
> 
> > I am inherently suspect of the legacy boot stuff. I suppose those who
> > use it have their reasons, but I'm all for moving ahead and leaving the
> > old bios behind! 
> 
> Well, me too, but it's occasionally useful for the proprietary video 
> drivers, or booting a generic CD.

Not only for the proprietary video drivers. The i810 Xorg driver
(needed in minis and macbooks) needs na VESA BIOS, too. Or has that
changed recently?

Regards,
Tino

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