I added Kendall from Scitech to the CC list. He is the expert on getting VBIOS's to post. Maybe he can help.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:29:47 +0000, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 15:17 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:08:15 +0000, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > It also explicitly states that Windows 2000 and XP don't support this, > > > which leads me to suspect that vendors no longer expect POSTing to be > > > possible after initial system boot. > > > > No, it means that some of my ATI cards don't function as secondary > > adapters on 2K and XP. > > And nor will any other card that requires POSTing (assuming that it > isn't just ATI being less than honest about driver shortcomings). And > we've certainly seen in the past that removing support for functionality > in Windows tends to result in hardware no longer supporting that > functionality. > > I have real, shipping hardware here that fails if you simply try to > execute the video BIOS POST code. If you think this is due to a > shortcoming in existing BIOS emulations, I'm more than happy to dump the > video and system BIOS regions and send them to you. > > -- > Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
