[LinuxBIOS] booting without vga

[Richard Smith]

On 8/25/06, Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way for linuxbios to initialize the graphics hardware
> directly? besides making linux use the framebuffer directly on bootup.
> and maybe making filo use the framebuffer too.

If the hardware was standard then yes but each graphics mfg does it
differently and its hidden by the VGA bios.  Think of each graphics
card as a graphics northbridge.  You have to eanble all the right
bits, turn on the video ram, etc.  On 99% of graphics cards the info
on how to do this is not known.  So you have to run the vga bios to do
it.


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Richard A. Smith