Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:18:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: fbdv/fbcon pending problems |
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> Question: Is fbdev supposed to work without BIOS?
It depends on the driver. Unfortunely most hardware companies will not give you info on how to boot a card BIOS-less :-( I do have code for the XL ati card to boot BIOS-less but it needs some work.
> > I have an ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP in an Alpha AXPpci33, > currently running with MILO as firmware/bootloader. > For several reasons I want to change to the original SRM firmware. > Unfortunately its intel_cpu/BIOS emulation locks up on the ATI BIOS. With > the BIOS disabled the SRM succeeds loading the kernel. fbdev seems to > initialize _something_, i.e. the monitor wakes up ans displays a stable > repeating pattern of vertical stripes. But it hangs the machine after > these lines on serial console: > > fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI > Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de). > > Booting the same kernel image (2.6.[13]) with MILO (which has a different > cpu emulation that succeeds executing the BIOS) works fine with fbdev. > > Bye, > Thorsten > >
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