[LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS
Hi Ron, 2007/2/26, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>:
Alan, this is an interesting idea.
yes, I think it is a good idea too although some friends said me it is a crazy idea :)
I wonder how I would replicate your setup in order to try to replicate your problem?
A way to you replicate this problem is: start LinuxBIOS with video support (from original VGA ROM BIOS), then run kdrive (Xvesa) or even try to start XFree with Driver "vesa" in Device Section of XF86Config or xorg.conf. I am using Tyan s2850 with onboard ATI Rage XL.
I am not sure why this is happening, UNLESS ... does Xvesa make some assumptions about the location of tables or information it uses to start up? What does Xvesa do? The only VESA stuff I know about (in plan 9) might be dependent on a fixed BIOS location for some things.
The Xvesa assuption is just to find the interrupt vector pointing to some area inside the 0xC000 segment, but I don't figure out it. I am not an X server and kdrive expert, maybe Keith Packard can answer it. Finally I get sucess to start X11 inside LinuxBIOS, I make a work around just "hard coding" the right segment and offset in vm86.c. After I will record a video and place in youtube to others people see it. I hope we can create something like the Phoenix BIOS to read email and browser web.
ron
Best regards, Alan
On 26/02/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <acassis@gmail.com> wrote:
After I will record a video and place in youtube to others people see it
Please make the video available in the free software Ogg/Theora format too :-)
I hope we can create something like the Phoenix BIOS to read email and browser web.
This is awesome! :-) -- Regards, Dave
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:13:37PM +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
On 26/02/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <acassis@gmail.com> wrote:
After I will record a video and place in youtube to others people see it
Please make the video available in the free software Ogg/Theora format too :-)
Check out vixy.net for transcoding FLV, it doesn't do open formats but there are other tools for that. The MPEG4 quality is very nice since it does not fully decode FLV before encoding MPEG4. //Peter
On 28/02/07, Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios@cdy.org> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:13:37PM +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
On 26/02/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <acassis@gmail.com> wrote:
youtube Ogg/Theora
Check out vixy.net
Wow! That is awesome :-) -- Regards, Dave
Hi Dave, 2007/2/28, Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>:
On 26/02/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <acassis@gmail.com> wrote:
After I will record a video and place in youtube to others people see it
Please make the video available in the free software Ogg/Theora format too :-)
Ok, no problem. Just now the graphic mode still very simple, it just has Xvesa running with Matchbox and rxvt. It starts in ~ 8s, but I have some ideas to improve speed. Other problem is the space, the 2MB BIOS flash is completely full, I removed almost everything from kernel, including printk support. I will apply the LZMA patch in kernel, maybe I will get more space.
I hope we can create something like the Phoenix BIOS to read email and browser web.
This is awesome! :-)
Yes it is fantastic, all we need inside a BIOS.
-- Regards, Dave
Best regards, Alan -- ------------------------------------------------------------ | Alan Carvalho de Assis | ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Não importa o que os outros irão pensar, A cura para a infelicidade é a felicidade
Somewhere, a deity has just killed a kitten. It's an interesting idea, though. If things need to be done this way, there ought to at least be a free alternative to the EFI approach. On 2/28/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <acassis@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes it is fantastic, all we need inside a BIOS.
Hi, On 28.02.2007 21:53, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote:
Other problem is the space, the 2MB BIOS flash is completely full, I removed almost everything from kernel, including printk support. I will apply the LZMA patch in kernel, maybe I will get more space.
LinuxBIOS has builtin LZMA support which saves you ~30-50kb over the LZMA kernel patch. Simply lzma the right vmlinux file. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
Hi Carl, 2007/3/1, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>:
Hi,
LinuxBIOS has builtin LZMA support which saves you ~30-50kb over the LZMA kernel patch. Simply lzma the right vmlinux file.
sure, really this is a better idea, I will test it.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
Best regards, Alan
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