Peter Karlsson wrote:
When it comes to card initialisation, perhaps you could take a look atNo, it is the case that there is almost no free code to initialize modern video chips from ATI & nVIDIA. This is one of the reasons(only one of many) that linuxbios only works on a few machines so far. Bochs uses a fake Cirrus logic chipset emulation (I think).
linuxbios. They are working to get vga support up and running (some have
been successful). Otherwise you may want to take a look at qemu
(unfortunately they don't support mips but they do support ppc), or bochs.
I think X also have the ability to "init" cards, but I'm not sure on
that...
X can not really init cards. What is done in the BIOS for on board video, is stored in flash on the PCI & AGP cards. X can not init un-initialized chips from ATI & nVIDIA. (Again, I'm talking about modern chips here <5 years old.)
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