Thanks Peter and Adam -- now I am no longer an idiot !!
Ps, going to post this on my Linux Society mailing list. I will have a PostNuke site up pretty soon to support news dicussion on this and also server side topics.
Pps, Just for reference, my star product has been a cross compiling gcc which automated security compiles of various packages, tgz packaging and ssh tar-in/tar-out delivery systems where the only OS mods were links from /etc/ startup files to local /opt/<app-name>/etc files. I have hoped to make an independent product out of it, based on the highly dependable Devil-Linux.org. (DL is text only by design)
Hence my ingnorace in PC h/w issues ;) Will anybody be at LinuxWorld today at Javits ??
john
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 07:24 AM, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
Many people are used to having a standard keyboard and a monitor attached to their computer system, a console. Because VGA BIOSes often rely heavily on legacy BIOS services (sorry, should've mentioned this part yesterday) these VGA BIOSes cannot be utilized in LinuxBIOS (yet) because LinuxBIOS doesn't provide these legacy BIOS services (interrupt services, int 15h etc. Search Ralph Brown's interrupt.lst for the keyword BIOS. :) yet. There is work underway to add needed parts from the Bochs project's GPL legacy BIOS to LinuxBIOS, which would also allow all VGA BIOSes to work.
It is been already done.
linuxbios supports both standard pc bios services as well as vga bios (although vga bios is in the binary only form so far).
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