Re: NVIDIA text console driver

[James S. <jsi...@su...>]

> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, James Simmons wrote:
> > Yes :-( Same conclusion. No way around this unless the hardware vendors
> > give out the proper specs.
> 
> It might not be possible even with full specs: A card might have two
> versions (sdram and sgram). All pci identification codes are the same, but
> it requires different initialization. The manufacturer solves this by
> putting two different roms, but how will your kernel code know which card
> it has?

A solution I have seen is with the matroxfb which passes a flag to the
video card. I know of any way to detect the different versions (sdram and
sgram) with code :-( Anyone have a idea? 


> > 
> > > The best is for the PC
> > > bios to run the bios of all cards at boot time.
> > 
> > Broken on my machine :-(
> 
> Do you mean that your bios is supposed to do this? I never seen a bios
> that does this.
> 
> 
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> Matan Ziv-Av                          ma...@sv...
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