Re: Graphics mode support

[Olivier Galibert]

On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 09:26:19PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Graphics mode support
> Date: 10 Nov 1999 11:28:16 +0100
> 
> > The reason it
> > should be done by GRUB is that it must be done from real mode,
> 
>   No. If you are right, how can XFree86 set up your video card? "Linux
> does so" is not any good reason at all. Linux _often_ does things in
> a bad way.

The VESA part of the bios must be called from real mode.  XFree86 has
drivers for the video cards, and hence does not use the bios to drive
them.

  OG.