Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:26:50 -0800 (PST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.5.51 |
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> How well does this driver work if you don't have a firmware > driver initialize the card? aka a pci option ROM. > > I am interested because with LinuxBIOS it is still a pain to run > PCI option roms, and I don't necessarily even have then if it a > motherboard with video. There are some embedded/non-x86 platforms > with similar issues. > > My primary interest is in the cheap ATI Rage XL chip that is on many > server board. PCI Vendor/device id 1002:4752 (rev 27) from lspci. > > If nothing else if some one could point me to some resources on > how to get the appropriate documentation from the video chipset > manufacturers I would be happy. > > But I did want to at least point that running a system with out bios > initialized video was certainly among the cases that are used.
Unfortunely ATI doesn't like to release info on what needs to be done to initialize without frimware. I really wish this was the case. I did see email back about someone getting a mach64 card working without firmware. They used a bus analysiser to do this. I will see what kind of patches I can dig up.
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