Re: NetBSD/bebox 1.5?

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

        I believe the people on port-atari are hitting the same issues
        with initialising pci graphics cards, and were looking at an x86
        emulator in the kernel to run the cards' BIOS. Maybe someone on
        port-atari could comment further? (Apologies for crosspost).

                David/absolute
                               -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --


On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Olaf Seibert wrote:

> On Thu 09 Nov 2000 at 10:38:16 +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > video card (an S3 Trio64) was not reset from the Be logo to text mode,
> > > so I had to use a serial console back when I tried some boot floppies.
> > > Those seemed to work fine, though.
> >
> >     Did you submit a PR on this?
>
> I don't think so. I communicated with some japanese guy (sorry, I forgot
> his name) who was developing it at the time, and he made the serial
> console boot floppies available. It is apparently very hard to reset gfx
> cards from random settings back to default. ^*&^(* pc hardware. So much
> for Be's touted "pc organ bank".
>
> >                 David/absolute
> >                            -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --
> -Olaf.
>