You can get VGA through just LinuxBIOS too. Find Richard Smith's FAQ on this mailing list archive and I think it covers how. And for watching DVDs, you can either use Mplayer's frame buffer output method, Mplayer's directfb output method, or Xfree86's fbdev. But you're right, if you get the vga bios working through linuxbios or adlo/bochs, you wont have to worry about framebuffers.
- Adam A.
On 13 Jul 2003, Xavier Pegenaute wrote:
Hi,
i have some questions about VGA in LinuxBios. If we don't use ADLO, there is'nt VGA Bios, then the unique possibility to see something in in Linux with the VGA is that we have implemented a FrameBuffer driver for the specific VGA board, and ofcourse that this driver has to talk directly with the hardware. And what about the Xserver ? the X software talk directly with the hardware ?
For example if i want to mount a little computer in my home to see DVDs and Divx, is it possible with LinuxBios?
Thanks. Xavi.
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