Re: Clean BIOS booting Mandrake 9 via LILO

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 21:54, Oliver Schwartz wrote:

Hi Oliver -

> > Good news, the 256KByte Clean BIOS (cromwell) is booting up a
> > normal Mandrake 9 install here, without needing the boot CD or any
> > FATX contact.
>
> Good news indeed.

I am still trying to fix some nasty problems with this :-(  CVS 'presently'.

> Another thought: In the X driver there's a function NVDACSave(...)
> which will store all relevant registers to some data structures to
> restore the previous mode later. It should be easy to dump all the
> register contents to a file. This way we can figure out which values
> are used after the native Dashboard boot.

This is a pretty smart idea, but surely the X Driver sets up everything in 
...Save() on init?  I was disappointed Sunday to find that when booting up 
via cromwell, including X starting as usual, that the TV remained blank.

-Andy



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