Quoting Rasmus Wiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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? >
Rasmus have you read this: http://www.linuxbios.org/data/vgabios/ It goes into pretty good detail on how graphics work in LinuxBIOS. Thanks - Joe -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
