If you need a VGA console for an S2885, fbdev seems to work pretty well, at least with the GeForce 2 MX we've tested it with. Just rip your video BIOS (dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin count=1536 skip=128), run testbios -s 65336 vgabios.bin, and modprobe your fbdev driver. Only obvious issue we noticed was when quitting X the cursor became grossly out of proportion. It's really kind of funny (Assuming you have no real work to get done).
Kind of a quick workaround, but if you're desperate for a local console fbdev seems to be a good temporary solution.
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 11:46, Hendricks David W. wrote:
it should be "dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=128"
You have to do this with booting by normal bios too.
I think the problem is the vgabios only do the half of the job. It only init the device but does not set it to any specific video mode. Under normal bios, the system call the vga bios to set the mode. But we do not do this in linuxbios.
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