C&T vga - newbie quests

[John van Vlaaderen]

Thanks Peter and Adam -- now I am no longer an idiot !!

Ps, going to post this on my Linux Society mailing list.  I will have a 
PostNuke site up pretty soon to support news dicussion on this and also 
server side topics.

Pps, Just for reference, my star product has been a cross compiling gcc 
which automated security compiles of various packages, tgz packaging and 
ssh tar-in/tar-out delivery systems where the only OS mods were links 
from /etc/ startup files to local /opt/<app-name>/etc files.  I have 
hoped to make an independent product out of it, based on the highly 
dependable Devil-Linux.org.  (DL is text only by design)

Hence my ingnorace in PC h/w issues ;)  Will anybody be at LinuxWorld 
today at Javits ??

john

On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 07:24 AM, Adam Sulmicki wrote:

>> Many people are used to having a standard keyboard and a monitor 
>> attached to
>> their computer system, a console.  Because VGA BIOSes often rely 
>> heavily on
>> legacy BIOS services (sorry, should've mentioned this part yesterday) 
>> these
>> VGA BIOSes cannot be utilized in LinuxBIOS (yet) because LinuxBIOS 
>> doesn't
>> provide these legacy BIOS services (interrupt services, int 15h etc.  
>> Search
>> Ralph Brown's interrupt.lst for the keyword BIOS. :) yet.  There is 
>> work
>> underway to add needed parts from the Bochs project's GPL legacy BIOS 
>> to
>> LinuxBIOS, which would also allow all VGA BIOSes to work.
>
> It is been already done.
>
> linuxbios supports both standard pc bios services as well as vga bios
> (although vga bios is in the binary only form so far).
>
> --
> Adam Sulmicki
> http://www.eax.com 	The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers
>
>
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