Re: Another way of using ADLO

[ollie lho]

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.