[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios on Epia-ML

John Galloway jrg at toasterfish.com
Sun Dec 18 18:18:32 CET 2005


On Dec 18, 2005, at 4:11 AM, Christian Sühs wrote:

>
> The video bios is taken from the original Bios with dd.
> Kernel is compiled with standard fb support. X fails, because of  
> the non
> exist /dev/fb0. Furthermore, there is no detecting of the graphic
> hardware, if the kernel starts.
>
It was previously reported here that this works if you take the video
bios from a 1.1.13 bios, but not if you use the newer 1.1.16 version.
The older one is not it seems on VIAs site anymore, but a poster offered
a link to a saved copy.
  -jrg



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