Hi,
i have some questions about VGA in LinuxBios. If we don't use ADLO, there is'nt VGA Bios, then the unique possibility to see something in in Linux with the VGA is that we have implemented a FrameBuffer driver for the specific VGA board, and ofcourse that this driver has to talk directly with the hardware. And what about the Xserver ? the X software talk directly with the hardware ?
For example if i want to mount a little computer in my home to see DVDs and Divx, is it possible with LinuxBios?
Thanks. Xavi.
You can get VGA through just LinuxBIOS too. Find Richard Smith's FAQ on this mailing list archive and I think it covers how. And for watching DVDs, you can either use Mplayer's frame buffer output method, Mplayer's directfb output method, or Xfree86's fbdev. But you're right, if you get the vga bios working through linuxbios or adlo/bochs, you wont have to worry about framebuffers.
- Adam A.
On 13 Jul 2003, Xavier Pegenaute wrote:
Hi,
i have some questions about VGA in LinuxBios. If we don't use ADLO, there is'nt VGA Bios, then the unique possibility to see something in in Linux with the VGA is that we have implemented a FrameBuffer driver for the specific VGA board, and ofcourse that this driver has to talk directly with the hardware. And what about the Xserver ? the X software talk directly with the hardware ?
For example if i want to mount a little computer in my home to see DVDs and Divx, is it possible with LinuxBios?
Thanks. Xavi.
Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
David Hendriks, working here this summer, is going to be trying to get the Nvidia N35 going on a P4 system with the native LinuxBIOS VGA support. He is wrapping up the EPIA now, recreating the the work others have done for VGA on that system, and learning all the ins and outs of that platform.
Poor David, I just blew his cover :-)
ron
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 01:28, ron minnich wrote:
David Hendriks, working here this summer, is going to be trying to get the Nvidia N35 going on a P4 system with the native LinuxBIOS VGA support. He is wrapping up the EPIA now, recreating the the work others have done for VGA on that system, and learning all the ins and outs of that platform.
Did you get any docs for Nvidia ? Or you have to do it the hard way ?
On 15 Jul 2003, ollie lho wrote:
Did you get any docs for Nvidia ? Or you have to do it the hard way ?
The Hard Way. But within the limits of The Hard Way, Nvidia is being very nice to us.
ron
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 05:08, ron minnich wrote:
On 15 Jul 2003, ollie lho wrote:
Did you get any docs for Nvidia ? Or you have to do it the hard way ?
The Hard Way. But within the limits of The Hard Way, Nvidia is being very nice to us.
Hard Way ?, is something like sniff the dialog of the VGA with the processor ?
Xavi.
On 15 Jul 2003, Xavier Pegenaute wrote:
Hard Way ?, is something like sniff the dialog of the VGA with the processor ?
The Hard Way is calling the VGA bios and supporting it in linuxbios.
ron
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:13, ron minnich wrote:
On 15 Jul 2003, Xavier Pegenaute wrote:
Hard Way ?, is something like sniff the dialog of the VGA with the processor ?
The Hard Way is calling the VGA bios and supporting it in linuxbios.
I don't know where is the hard way, may be i dind'tn understend, but copy the bios into a binary image copy in memory, and put the int10 to the correct position, is this the hard way ?
Thanks. Xavi.
On 15 Jul 2003, Xavier Pegenaute wrote:
I don't know where is the hard way, may be i dind'tn understend, but copy the bios into a binary image copy in memory, and put the int10 to the correct position, is this the hard way ?
no, I'll try to explain later.
ron
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