[Mactel-linux-devel] Enable VGA Bios on Mac Mini to use x.org native i810 driver instead of framebuffer

Thomas Glanzmann sithglan at stud.uni-erlangen.de
Sun Mar 19 13:34:20 PST 2006


Hello,

> The code described enables legacy VGA address decoding, but doesn't 
> provide any VBE functionality. I'd be surprised if Apple actually 
> shipped a legacy video BIOS in their hardware, and I've certainly found 
> no sign of one. The Windows drivers probably work by driving the 
> hardware directly - Dave Airlie is working on providing some of the same 
> functionality in Xorg.

thanks. I think, that I will stay with the fbdev for now. Could you give
me or the mactel list a Heads-Up when there is something that I can give
a try?

Sincerely,
        Thomas



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