I have an old Dell 8100 Inspiron (~2008) laptop with am nVidia graphics card. As I recall, the laptop graphics card requires enabling something called "quirks" option for the Linux nouveau (DRM) graphics driver before being able to use the DRM/X/Xorg interface, else the graphics card emits a blank screen after booting from BIOS.
If you have something similar, such as seen the BIOS screen however no subsequent FreeDOS screen, might need to read the nouveau graphics drive source code for some possible understanding what may be happening. Was always bizarre in my opinion. I have yet trying FreeDOS on the laptop, as I have the laptop stored. ... maybe if I have time this Winter I'll try FreeDOS on it. On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 7:17 AM Daniel Doran via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I got an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX AGP graphics card (256MB RAM), it’s in my Compaq > Presario 6207EA PC. FreeDOS won’t boot with it installed, it just freezes. > However, I know the card is good as Haiku OS loves it, not only does it work > but it gives me accelerated graphics on Haiku OS 32-bit… so I know the card > is good. Anyone know why FreeDOS doesn’t like it? > > Thanks! > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
