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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