Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-01 Thread RJ Givens
Ok, so I got ATIFlash to run form Booting by disk, but it is not seeing the RX580, it is only seeing the original video card ( have to leave it in otherwise I don’t get the boot screen when holding down option) > On Apr 1, 2020, at 10:59 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >  > Hi! > >> Would that w

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Would that work if I have a second graphics card ? To be honest, I am pessimistic. I once tried to use the real graphics card of a commercial VMWare server workstation for GPU calculations by making it visible to the OS inside the virtual computer and just got the ability to crash the real

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-01 Thread RJ Givens
Would that work if I have a second graphics card ? If the Mac Pro 5,1 would let you boot from USB, this wouldn’t be an issue. > On Apr 1, 2020, at 3:55 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >  > Hi RJ, > > the short story is that VMWare creates a fully virtual > computer. You can not install VMWare on App

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-01 Thread geneb
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020, RJ Givens wrote: I figured that part out. Now my issue is ATIFLASH says there is no card detected. Any insight on that? You cannot update the physical video card from within a virtual machine. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one o

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi RJ, the short story is that VMWare creates a fully virtual computer. You can not install VMWare on Apple to use a DOS program to update the BIOS of your REAL VGA card. You would have to run the BIOS update tool on real hardware. Maybe you can find an Apple tool for VGA BIOS updates? Or you c