Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA Help (hangs on emulator)

[Lu, Yinghai]

Addon card do need that. The LinuxBIOS will find the rom on that card.

YH

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Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA Help (hangs on emulator)

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:37:59AM -0700, steve yannalfo wrote:
> I know it is friday and we are all tired....
>
> I have a VGA device off amd8132 channel B
> Trying VGA but LB hangs on the emulator.....
> It looks like the VGA image is OK and loading... but,

Anton Borisov has just released some tools to extract VGA images from
BIOS
ROM images. I've just updated the FAQ:

http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/FAQ#How_to_retrieve_a_good_video_bios

You might want to try that to make sure your image is ok.

Thanks,
Ward.

[LinuxBIOS] VGA Help (hangs on emulator)

[Ward Vandewege]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:24:27PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> Addon card don't need that. The LinuxBIOS will find the rom on that card.

Ah, yes of course, I assumed an embedded vga card. I'll add that to the
FAQ...

Ward.