Humm OK, the main point in asking the question was coming from the stand point that it is easy to obtain a vga rom. Most standard bios images are just a zip file. There are tools on the web that allow one to unzip a bios rom file and grab the rom for the graphics controller. This was an idea that I was toying around with that I think could help the whole linuxbios group of people. I am not at that part yet. Both my board do not boot linux bios yet. The Pentium M board is not supported, yet. The P3 board has the super IO in the southbridge makeing life harder. When I get one of these board booting linuxbios then I will be willing to try to get VGA bios running. -Adam Talbot
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adam Talbot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <linuxbios@clustermatic.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:01 AM Subject: Re: Vga bios? > > --- Adam Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If i have the rom image for the graphics card rom, > > can I load that into linuxbios? > > Maybe. > > There are 2 methods of doing VGA bios with LB. Both > of these methods are for v1. I can't speak for v2 > since I haven't made the switch yet. > > Method one is to enable the real mode IDT stuff that > sets up a 16 bit enviroment and jumps into the > vgabios. I've attempted this but never took it far > enough to actually make it work. Search the archives > for 'vgabios' or 'vga bios' and you should find lots > of posts describing what to set. > > The second option and the one that I'm most familiar > with is using ADLO. ADLO is a glue layer to the BIOS > used int the bochs project which attempts to set up a > legacy BIOS enviroment. > > Using ADLO and Bochs, I've made LILO and several > vgabios's work under LinuxBios with our Intel 440bx > chipset. > > What chipset are you using? > > -- > Richard A Smith > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios