Re: fbdev and S3 chips

Simon Kenyon (simon@koala.ie)
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 10:52:39 -0000 (GMT)


On 19-Dec-98 Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Yes, it is possible - S3 has available on their web site a program called
> s3vbe20.exe that will load a VESA 2.0 BIOS onto the card - works like a
> charm on my S3 Virge. I've used it successfully with the vesafb
> driver+loadlin.
could this not be done like some of the soundcards
just download the bios using a special ioctl
then no dos required to boot linux (which kind of sticks in my thoat)
--
simon

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