On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 10:06, Richard Smith wrote: > > > It is weird that fuctory bios can still use them. > > > > There's gotta be a hack in fuctory bios, I would guess, something like: > > if (the pci card is a vga && there is an option rom) > > callit(); > > > > i.e. I betcha that fuctory bioses will call an option rom on vga even if > > it violates the spec. > > > > I wonder if we really want to do this, the S3 cards are antiques anyway. > > Ollie how are you ripping the vbios bios from the S3 card? Did you > pop the chip and use a programmer? If not you may be suffering from > the nuke the rom header issue I was talking about earlier.
I can enable rom load but disable execution in LinuxBIOS. After the system is up, I dumped the memory content. Actually, the rom load refuse to download it because its header is incorrect. It is not the nuke problem, it is simply incorrect header. Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
