On Llu, 2004-03-15 at 16:51, Ian Romanick wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > > 1) GET_VBIOS -- gets a copy of the board's video BIOS ROM. It is implemented > > 2) VGA_ENABLE -- this is used to control the active VGA card in the system. > > 3) BLANK - simple call to allow Vesa power management to blank the display. > > How does all this work on non-x86 systems? Since the rest of the world, > thankfully, doesn't use compiled machine code in the on-card firmware, > how is that handled? *Is* that handled? :)
It doesn't work on x86 machines either. Not all cards even have a video bios. Not all cards are VGA and not all cards do vesa blanking. Take for example the Voodoo1. Does frame buffer nicely right now, does X with the voodoo driver or glide driver, is not VGA, has no VBIOS and doesn't support vesa blanking ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
