Running with VGA

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:50, YhLu wrote:
> It seems after if after cpu init do the onboard vga init, it will work.
> 
> The CPU init only do the init ECC and clear that after 1M. ... Werid! And it
> is not wiped out after power off.
> 

Are you sure it is not the "loaded from ROM or dd from /dev/mem" 
problem?

Ollie

> 
> YH
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie at lanl.gov] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:15 PM
> To: YhLu
> Cc: Sagiv Yefet; LinuxBIOS
> Subject: RE: Running with VGA
> 
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:23, YhLu wrote:
> > S2892 has onboard atirage xl
> > S2895 has no onboard.
> > 
> 
> With exactly the same chip and BIOS? Then probably the order
> of calling device::init() does matter.
> 
> Ollie
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie at lanl.gov] 
> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:10 PM
> > To: YhLu
> > Cc: Sagiv Yefet; LinuxBIOS
> > Subject: RE: Running with VGA
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:45, YhLu wrote:
> > > No, no problem.
> > > 
> > > Same addon card (ati rage xl) (pci) on S2895 works well.
> > > 
> > 
> > I am confused. Are you using S2895 or S2892? And is the rage xl
> > on board or as an addon card?
> > 
> > Ollie
> >