* Luc Verhaegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070526 12:14]:
> > 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.
Or they will just use the VGA BIOS which can do all, I think.
> 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 VIA's graphics bios do all that? Can it be done in a non-VIA-only
way?
> [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.
default text mode sucks ;) but ignore me, i'm the bootsplash guy
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