Egbert Eich writes:
> Rene Rebe writes:
>  >
>  > For the newer sis chips / bios version we had to disable the
mode-switching
>  > and let the VESA-framebuffer initialize the chip. - I spend many hours
>  > debugging in the stupid sis_bios.[h,c] ... , too.
>  >
>  > I have a short info page:
>  >   http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s712059/sis630/index.html
>  >
>
> I've looked at it - you only offer binary drivers.
> However I think I know what you do. Your patch is pretty similar to
> the VESAFbHack patch posted a while ago.
> I'm thinking of something different: sis_bios.c is converted BIOS code
> anyway. Since we have the int10 infrastructure we can use it to
> run the real BIOS and eliminate much of the code in sis_bios.c.

Theres only one problem with int10 is that it does an segment fault when
int10 initialises (at least for me). see attachment...

>
>  > I tryed to get docu from sis - even considering signing a NDA - but
suddely
>  > the email thread with them stopped ... ? - They so not seem to be
interessted
>  > in getting they chip to work properly under Linux ...
>  >
>
> :-(
> I would certainly love to have better docs for the graphics part of
> the 630 than there are in the 630 datasheet.
>
> Egbert.
>
> --
> Egbert Eich                 XFree86 Core Team              SuSE GmbH
>                             [EMAIL PROTECTED]               [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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