Rogelio Serrano wrote:
On 8/29/06, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> if i use the ogc i will not be booting into vga mode even on an x86. i
> will be using linuxbios and boot straight onto graphics mode.
>
And how will you do this?
Will your System BIOS be configured for your monitor?
no. linuxbios will configure the card. and since the card is open its
not rocket science. with current proprietary cards its impossible to
do that. the vga bios is a copyrighted opaque 16bit binary blob
nonsense.
why not vga then? because i can. the card has open specs. no need to
go to vga and delay the bootup.
the mode will be available via ddc. the bios does not need to be
configurable at all. bios should just load the OS as fast as possible.
That would be the case with any monitor that provides DDC. The issue
that I am raising is what we do with monitors that don't provide DDC and
won't support VGA. How does Linux BIOS deal with such monitors?
--
JRT
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