On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:25 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Simon Geard wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:25 -0500, al...@verizon.net wrote: > > You were ok up to here...
A combination of trying to simplify, and trying to remember stuff I last played with in college, back when accelerated graphics add-on cards were a rarity... :) > That font is implemented in ROM inside the graphics controller, not > the BIOS. To get access to it, one simply has to command the controller > to use it. If one does that, the boot screen content usually magically > reappears, unless one also switches to a different RAM page for display, > or if some frame buffer mode was used during boot. Ok, so that stuff is on the video card, not the motherboard? Nevertheless, the point was more to do with the two ways of talking to that controller - either by treating it as an modern NVidia card (as Nouveau does), or as an antique VGA chip (as the BIOS does). And the latter isn't consistent with Nouveau's purpose in providing the former. Simon.
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