* ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [040108 23:11]:
I got an S2880 up with VGA by using the ATI biosless patch for 2.4.x done by some SGI guy. That is not really flexible, but it helped me to see light for the first time in LinuxBIOS
The right solution. We're doing the wrong solution (running the VGA bios) because VGA people won't let us do the right solution.
The right solution is actually to use FCode for device initialization. ;-) You don't really want another layer of graphics drivers next to fbdev, X11, directfb, ggi/kgi, svgalib, and what they are called (even though non really copes with the layer we are talking about)
As soon as I get a working Open Firmware PCI driver done for OpenBIOS, this is the way to go (at least for the few devices with FCode that don't do the Apple fake thingie)
Stefan