> Since Linux has a good graphical console, it's probably best to just > stick with 80x25 until the kernel comes up. The main reason to > support any more VGA (e.g. 640x480x16 graphics) is if we want to > support Windows.
Fortunately all the world is not linux and ms-virus-server. If the OS will automagically boot, you probably don't need to read the stuff the bios spews out. Unless you need to change boot device order or some other setting. If the OS doesn't boot for whatever reason, you may need to muck around in the bios and/or bootstrap, etc. A choice of fonts could be useful for those with poor eyesight, odd display, etc. > But there are much more interesting things to do with > this card, like 3D graphics and things unrelated to graphics. I thought that OGD1 was supposed to be a development platform for the OGC card? It strikes me that improving VGA font support could be a good project for some non-core developer to work on. The basics are there, sources are available. Meanwhile the core developers can work on OGC. SGABIOS sounds potentially useful, thanks Peter. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
