On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 23:50, Antony Stone wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm using LinuxBios on an SiS630 motherboard (PC-Chips M810L).
>
> Is is essential to use the framebuffer device for video output under
> LinuxBios, or can I boot it into a 'standard VGA' mode ?
>
> I tried changing HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER=1
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 2:14 am, ollie lho wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 23:50, Antony Stone wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm using LinuxBios on an SiS630 motherboard (PC-Chips M810L).
> >
> > Is is essential to use the framebuffer device for video output under
> > LinuxBios, or can I boot it int
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 15:56, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 September 2002 2:14 am, ollie lho wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 23:50, Antony Stone wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I'm using LinuxBios on an SiS630 motherboard (PC-Chips M810L).
> > >
> > > Is is essential to use the framebuffer
I am hoping to get standard alphanumeric vga setup into the linuxbios code
base, as part of the stpc initialization, in the very near future. Linux
assumes the vga registers are already initialized in vgacon.c (in
drivers/video), and changes only a few register settings. But (hopefully)
for alph
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 00:27, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> I am hoping to get standard alphanumeric vga setup into the linuxbios code
> base, as part of the stpc initialization, in the very near future. Linux
> assumes the vga registers are already initialized in vgacon.c (in
> drivers/video), and c
> > Maybe someone knows if alphanumeric mode setup is via the standard VGA
> > register set on most modern VGA cards.
> >
>
> I am afraid your are wrong. For modern VGA cards, there is actually no
> alphanumeric mode. These alphanumeric mode were simulated by BIOS or
> drivers. The worst thing, if
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 7:22 am, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> > > Maybe someone knows if alphanumeric mode setup is via the standard VGA
> > > register set on most modern VGA cards.
> >
> > I am afraid you are wrong. For modern VGA cards, there is actually no
> > alphanumeric mode. These alp
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 7:22 am, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> > > Maybe someone knows if alphanumeric mode setup is via the standard VGA
> > > register set on most modern VGA cards.
> >
> > I am afraid your are wrong. For modern VGA cards, there is actually no
> > alphanumeric mode. These al
> 1. there's a standard way for the motherboard Bios to initialise _any_
> graphics card, so it can initialise a new one it's never heard of before (and
> presumably LinuxBios could do the same), or:
this is what is the case.
BIOS has notion of "extensions", which just piece of firmware on each
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:22:58PM -0700, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> > > Maybe someone knows if alphanumeric mode setup is via the standard VGA
> > > register set on most modern VGA cards.
> > >
> >
> > I am afraid your are wrong. For modern VGA cards, there is actually no
> > alphanumeric mode. T
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:55:21AM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
>
> 1. there's a standard way for the motherboard Bios to initialise _any_
> graphics card, so it can initialise a new one it's never heard of before (and
> presumably LinuxBios could do the same), or:
This is the case. The way you
* Antony Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020911 09:26]:
> Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this what the Bios chip on the VGA card
> itself is for (in the case where you have a physical card plugged into the
> motherboard, and not an all-in-one integrated motherboard chipset) ?
exactly.
> I mean, s
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>Is there a flaw somewhere in my reasoning ?
>
>
Unfortunately, yes.
The problem is that video BIOSes run in real mode and tend to rely on legacy
system BIOS services. These _can_ be rewritten but noone on this list is
very interested in doing so because it is a LOT o
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Antony Stone wrote:
> Couldn't LinuxBios simply call the appropriate init code in a graphics card
> Bios in order to get a text console, and then carry on afterwards in the same
> way a normal boot loader would ?
see vgabios support in linuxbios. We can do that.
ron
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> > Fortunately regular vga cards are not very important to me,
> actually, I am
> > really most interested in integrated chipsets, such as the stpc
> and the via
> > apollo ple133 northbridge, both of which are legacy VGA register
> > compatible.
>
> In this case, when the chips really ARE VGA co
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Antony Stone wrote:
> 1. there's a standard way for the motherboard Bios to initialise _any_
> graphics card, so it can initialise a new one it's never heard of before (and
> presumably LinuxBios could do the same), or:
we already can do this, see the vgabios stuff.
> 2. th
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Peter Stuge wrote:
> This is the case. The way you reset a VGA card is to far call the real mode
> address 0xc000:3. This is what the system BIOS does pretty early on, before
> saying anything to anyone looking at the screen. Try starting debug.exe in
> MS-DOS and enter
>
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 15:55, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 September 2002 7:22 am, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
>
> > > > Maybe someone knows if alphanumeric mode setup is via the standard VGA
> > > > register set on most modern VGA cards.
> > >
> > > I am afraid your are wrong. For modern VG
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 16:09, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:22:58PM -0700, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> > > > Maybe someone knows if alphanumeric mode setup is via the standard VGA
> > > > register set on most modern VGA cards.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I am afraid your are wrong. For mod
ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> What is AFAICS ??
As Far As I Can See
>
> The catch is, for most cases, you have to program those "non-standard"
> undocumented extended register first then these Standard VGA registers
> become "Standard". You can try it anyway.
Ollie I haven't looke
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 09:51, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > What is AFAICS ??
>
> As Far As I Can See
> >
> > The catch is, for most cases, you have to program those "non-standard"
> > undocumented extended register first then these Standard VGA regist
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