Dylan,
What I noticed is that if you use legacy BIOS it
may take little longer to boot( 5-7 secs more ), but it does your initialization
cleaner and all of the devices works properly under Linux.
Anyways you can definitely get epia2 kernel which
uses vgafb and pass TVon=1 at the boot time to turn on the video
output.
viafb works well when used as a module. For kernel
non module build you may need additional patch. I have it if you
wish.
Just out of curiosity. What encoder you're talking
here ? Is it built in to EPIA board ? Can you send a link ?
Bors/
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 9:45
PM
Subject: DirectFB Minit-itx?
Hello, Im interested in a M1000 with the CLE266 tv-encoder(mpeg2)/Matrox
G550 chipset for a PVR type applications id like to use Linuxbios to boot
the system quicker, As well as boot directly into Tv-output through
DirectFB.
DirectFB has support for calling Tv-output once booted, but I'd like to
activate it during boot can this be done with linuxbios ?
Dylan
D.