vga emulator new version

Li-Ta Lo ollie at lanl.gov
Thu Feb 5 13:01:00 CET 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 11:09, ron minnich wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Peter Stuge wrote:
> 
> > Great work!
> > 
> > Does it automagically work with many different cards? :p
> 
> it's still held together with rubber bands, there is work to do now to get 
> linuxbios to do the right things. 
> 
> What you have to do right now by hand (wrmsr, setpci, etc.)
> - get a video bios image
> - Do some msr writes to correctly set fixed msr with extensions
> - get the base address for gart (read vga card for this)

Should it be from AGP bridge ??

> - set IORR1, and some other K8 northbridge settings based on gart base
> - run testbios (newest one)
> 

Ollie




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