C&T vga - newbie quests

[John van Vlaaderen]

Hello -> confused newbie here !!

The linuxbios chat, I can follow but I am very intrigued by the vgabios 
since it will help linux on the nanofront and advance my own thinman 
model ***

I am writing a glossary right now and I need to know the difference 
between:

vgabios, framebuffer and X

My understanding is that X is compiled into the vgabios and that a 
framebuffer is a vga card (sun systems)

TIA, yeah.. I know

** I have an organization called the Linux Society, right now at 
http://yahoogroups.com/group/linux-society.  We will soon be a postnuke 
site and will be offering a lot of integration products based on 
completely new ways of booting linux.  Devil-Linux is our standard OS 
install.  The ThinMan is a trademark for a device network that seeks to 
collect pennies from 6 billion humans rather than thousands from a 
hundred million (microsoft)


On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 09:07 PM, daniel at dmhome.net wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 01:19, Richard A. Smith wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:37:29 -0800, daniel at dmhome.net wrote:
>> I'm intersted in helping you get the C&T video bios working since our
>> system has 2 69000's on it and I'd like them to vga on boot rather
>> than wait for  fb or X.
> I'm using this :
>
> option CONFIG_VGABIOS=1
> option CONFIG_REALMODE_IDT=1
> option CONFIG_PCIBIOS=1
>
> but now it doesn't compile anymore with this error:
>
> linuxbios_c.o: In function `biosint':
> linuxbios_c.o(.text+0x1587): undefined reference to `pcibios'
>
> The makefile doesn't seem to have any references to it after running
> NLBconfig, so I will try to add it manually. Any other tips ?
>
> Thanks ,
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
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