On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:21:41AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 20:40, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > > > If you keep using the original graphics device alongside the new add-on > > card or instead of it, this won't be a problem: Linux will recognise > > the card by its PCI vendor:device string, so you can still bring up X. > > No, as I said, this _won't_ work in general. Some low level > initialization of the card usually needs to be done by the firmware.
Unless you port the XFree86 bios interpreter to work on powerpc or something such. I think some experiments where already made, but i don't know if it is conclusive. The idea is to have the int10/vbe/whatever it is read the bios, and then pass it to an x86 emulator to execute it and intialize the card. Friendly, Sven Luther
