On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 04:54, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:52, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > > Ollie, you did it! > > > > > > > We should thank SciTech for their wonderful emulator. > > Yes. > > > > Ollie just took a big stack of video cards, some AGP and some PCI, and > > > booted linuxbios one at a time and showed how each video card came up. > > > > > > It's fantastic. > > > > > > > I think the current code should support most VGA cards available in the > > market. I have tried VGA cards from Nvidia, ATI, Matrox and Cirrus. > > > > I found that the VBIOS on S3 cards don't have correct ROM header. The > > company is dead anyway. > > In what sense do they have a bad ROM header? I can easily see > them not supporting new pci features. Unless we can show that > something is broken beyond repair we should not give up on supporting > it. We don't know what brain damage will show up next. >
Some of them don't have correct 0x55aa signature. All of them have wrong Class code. Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
