On Dec 18, 2005, at 4:11 AM, Christian Sühs wrote:
The video bios is taken from the original Bios with dd. Kernel is compiled with standard fb support. X fails, because of the non exist /dev/fb0. Furthermore, there is no detecting of the graphic hardware, if the kernel starts.
It was previously reported here that this works if you take the video bios from a 1.1.13 bios, but not if you use the newer 1.1.16 version. The older one is not it seems on VIAs site anymore, but a poster offered a link to a saved copy. -jrg