On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:38:48PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:39:20PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > > an EPIA/-M/-MII workshop on Saturday 2/6 > > > > Hrm, makes me wish i had already finished the direct unichrome > > support for it. > > ..instead of using the VGA BIOS, right?
Indeed. No more messing about with that. > > Tell people it's in the works, that it runs np from userspace, > > but that it needs further work integrating in linuxbios. > > I'm pretty much stuck until halfway june, though. > > Aye. > > How does davem's viafb fit into the picture? Is this the one that's based on the register document i wrote up in 2004? I don't know, never used it. It won't work properly without the VGA BIOS though. > I used the VGA BIOS and built a viafb kernel for my EPIA-MII last > time I was using the board and got good graphics out of it. No X > though. > > Is viafb at all useful for running X.org? > Which version of X.org is good for users? > (Assuming LinuxBIOS+VGA BIOS) I don't know if it is useful, last time i used X on fb, the MGA G450 was still recent. You can use my xf86-video-unichrome directly, with no VGA BIOS, it'll run just like normal. Just make sure you get the git version. Any X will do too. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios