Another way of using ADLO
ollie lho
ollie at sis.com.tw
Tue Apr 29 21:26:01 CEST 2003
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 21:49, ron minnich wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2003, bendany wrote:
>
> > I am trying to use the VGA with LinuxBIOS. since I am trying to use the
> > Xwindows. if you want to start the Xserver, you must have the vgabios. I
> > think when the Xserver startup, it will probe the videocard. but since
> > the LinuxBIOS does not have the videobios. so the Xserver crash.
>
> no, the problem is that the Xserver emulation of an 8086 has bugs, and so
> it crashes. There are some real problems with the X11 VGA support.
>
Well, for some version of Xserver for SiS chipsets, it requires register
table embedded in VGABIOS image. So you need the image in the C segment
anyway.
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ollie lho <ollie at sis.com.tw>
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