Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:37:50 -0600 (CST) | | From | Phil Brutsche <> | | Subject | Re: fbdev and S3 chips |
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On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> > On 19-Dec-98 Phil Brutsche wrote: > > Yes, it is possible - S3 has available on their web site a program called > > s3vbe20.exe that will load a VESA 2.0 BIOS onto the card - works like a > > charm on my S3 Virge. I've used it successfully with the vesafb > > driver+loadlin. > could this not be done like some of the soundcards > just download the bios using a special ioctl > then no dos required to boot linux (which kind of sticks in my thoat) It probably could - the sticky point would be getting the BIOS data that needs to be downloaded. (I assume you're talking about IBM's Mwave sound cards in their thinkpads, right? In that case, a DOS program simply instructs the Mwave what to emulate. AFAIK, of course :-))
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