[SeaBIOS] SeaVGABIOS and winxp

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Sun Apr 15 23:07:30 CEST 2012


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:17:09AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 15.04.2012 06:48, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > * Many enhancements to VGA BIOS code - it should now be feature complete with LGPL vgabios.
> 
> This is something which prompted me to test the new release,
> but it gives... interesting results.
> 
> WinXP guest is unable to find drivers for the video adaptor
> with -vga std and this vgabios.bin, not even its "standard VGA"
> fallback driver.  The device in question is detected as "Other
> devices / Video controller (VGA compat.)", and its identification
> looks like:
> 
>  PCI\VEN_1234&DEV_1111&SUBSYS_11001AF4&REV_00\3&13C0B0C5&0&10
> 
> This appears to be bogus somehow, no?

It seems to work okay for me.  What did you select in Kconfig, where
did you put the resulting out/vgabios.bin file, and what emulator are
you using?

Also, if using qemu/kvm add "-chardev stdio,id=seabios -device
isa-debugcon,iobase=0x402,chardev=seabios" to the command line and
post the resulting debug log.

-Kevin



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