On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 01:53:32AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > ..instead of using the VGA BIOS, right? > > Indeed. No more messing about with that.
Great, thanks for clarifying that. > > 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 think that's the one, yes. I "only" needed fbdev support so I tried it and it worked well. (Yes, with the VGA BIOS.) Is there another way to get fbdev that you recommend? > 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. Awesome! :) On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:14:20PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > BTW: Can we switch to certain resolutions and depths, as well as > > use different outputs (VGA, TV, ..) with your userspace utility? > > No, this is purely to get 640x480 textmode to work on the CRT > connection. This is the safe option that will work for 98% of the > EPIA-M users out there. The other 2% are those who are fully > dependant on the DVI or LVDS/RGB display modules. Does xf86-video-unichrome also work on the plain EPIA by the way? > I can of course insert a full modesetting system, but that will > mean doing things like EDID parsing and cvt modeline generation in > linuxbios. And this will all be getting rather big rather quickly. Does it have to be done at runtime? A compile time option for graphics mode and output would be a really great feature too. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is somewhat safe, as most devices on the CRT > connection will be able to handle this, as this is the default BIOS > textmode. Yes, fully agreed. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios