Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:28:23AM +0200, Rasmus Wiman wrote: > > when I can afford it, I will buy a new MB with integrated vga, > > probably the one I think stands the best chance of getting > > supported. Right now I think that would mean NVidia or VIA, but > > I know rather little about it. > > Aha! I think there is a slight misunderstanding. > > "Integrated" graphics are not really any different from discrete > graphics as far as LB is concerned. Neither better nor worse.
Sounds good. I was thinking that memory initalisation might be somehow diferent when the graphics hardware wants some of the memory. > There are two graphics chips supported natively in LB, they are the > ATI Rage XL and the Trident Blade3d. I've only heard the former > confirmed working. Didn't even know LB has that kind of support for any graphics chip. I only knew about the CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN and (if needed ) extracting the vga bios from the stock bios approach. By the way, at least Rage XL (with its own memory) seems pretty common on server mainboards.Is it a coincidence that just that chip is supported? > > But my main motivation is that if there was a MB with a "Works with > > linuxbios" sticker on it, and it didn't cost too much I'd buy it. > > I'll say M57SLI. That was my first thought too. Or another MCP55 card. Then I started wondering if I could help put that sticker on more cards. That's when I started wondering if the nforce 430 with built-in Geforce would be very different from the mcp55, or the k8m800 would be very different from the epia chipsets. /Rasmus -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios