Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-27 Thread Corey Osgood
On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 19:26 -0700, Russ Whitaker wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2007, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: No, this is purely to get 640x480 textmode to work on the CRT Shouldn't that be vga video mode 3, 720x400 res, which

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-27 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:26:54PM -0700, Russ Whitaker wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2007, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: No, this is purely to get 640x480 textmode to work on the CRT Shouldn't that be vga video mode 3, 720x400 res,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-26 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:58:33AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: What has to be done to make it work in LinuxBIOS? When we did VGA BIOS execution it was done in userspace first and then migrated into LinuxBIOS. Otoh, I am sure that part of LinuxBIOS could use some cleanup, too. Well, I

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-26 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 01:53:32AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: ..instead of using the VGA BIOS, right? Indeed. No more messing about with that. Great, thanks for clarifying that. How does davem's viafb fit into the picture? Is this the one that's based on the register document i wrote

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-26 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* 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

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-26 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:37:48PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: I think that's the one, yes. I only needed fbdev support so I tried it and it worked well. (Yes, with the VGA BIOS.) Is there another way to get fbdev that you recommend? Not, yet, one day, maybe :) Does xf86-video-unichrome also

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-26 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: 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

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-26 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: No, this is purely to get 640x480 textmode to work on the CRT Shouldn't that be vga video mode 3, 720x400 res, which gives 80x25 text? Russ -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 03:48:24AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: Just a quick note to confirm that LinuxBIOS will be present at the LinuxTag expo next week. We'll show some systems with LB and we're doing an EPIA/-M/-MII workshop on Saturday 2/6 for people who want to get started using LinuxBIOS

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:39:20PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: an EPIA/-M/-MII workshop on Saturday 2/6 Hrm, makes me wish i had already finished the direct unichrome support for it. ..instead of using the VGA BIOS, right? Tell people it's in the works, that it runs np from userspace,

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Stuge
Just a quick note to confirm that LinuxBIOS will be present at the LinuxTag expo next week. We'll show some systems with LB and we're doing an EPIA/-M/-MII workshop on Saturday 2/6 for people who want to get started using LinuxBIOS quickly. Bring your board! :) I've put a news item up on the wiki

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin

2007-04-06 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Hi, is anyone going to the LinuxTag in Berlin? Anyone interested in doing a LinuxBIOS booth there? Stefan -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] • http://www.coresystems.de/ -- linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin

2007-04-06 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:53:30AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: is anyone going to the LinuxTag in Berlin? I can probably not resist. :) Anyone interested in doing a LinuxBIOS booth there? Yep. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org