Coquelicot wrote: > On Nov 21, 2007 7:46 PM, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:00:14PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: >> >>> On 11/20/07, Coquelicot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> what can be responsible for long delay before starting LinuxBIOS? I >>>> have it on VIA EPIA M-II with LB preppended by original VGA bios >>>> extracted from the original BIOS. The delay is ~20 seconds before I >>>> get first message on serial console (..."In auto.c:main()" messages). >>>> >>>> Correct me if I am wrong: do I need VGA BIOS at all? I want my booting >>>> >> No. On a head-less server for example, you usually don't care about VGA, >> and you can easily leave it away (no VGA blob to prepend to linuxbios.rom). >> >> Disable VGA support in LinuxBIOS with CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=0 in Options.lb. >> >> > > What about a carputer which need to be able to display graphics (X or > DirectFB)? can I skip the VGA bios in such setup altogether? I'm > talking about VIA EPIA M-II so I am not sure if two LB "drivers" you > mention below (RageXL and GeoDE) can work?
Have a look the unichrome driver: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios/20954 I can't believe I forgot about this! But anyways, as I said, I don't think a vga bios could affect the early serial portion of LinuxBIOS, it just doesn't make sense. -Corey -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios