Running with VGA

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 14:01, YhLu wrote:
> It seems that onboard ATI rage xl font mem can not be loaded correctly by
> option rom in emulator.
> 
> After load the kernel (2.6.5) with atyfb enabled. The font mem can be
> recovered even restart the MB.
> 
> I guess the ati rage xl could be judge sth to decide if it need to reload
> the font mem.
> 

Did you get scrambled screen? One thing you probably would try is
to get a 'real' BIOS image instead of dumping from a normal BIOS
system. I found that some BIOSes are self-modifying, if you dump
it from normal BIOS, it will skip some operation. In this case,
it is probably init font buffer.

Ollie