Re: Potato/Xfree401/mutlihead problems

[Nikita Schmidt <cetus@snowball.ucd.ie>]

On Thursday, 20 Jul, Thomas W. wrote:
>
> Also, for exactly *that* scenario, XFree uses it's libint10.a, to initialize
> cards that have previously not been initialized by POST procedures.

Aha.  I believe XFree can call video BIOS on x86 platforms, but I doubt it
can do it on Alphas.

I didn't know about libint10.a; so that's where the x86 emulator should go
(be linked with).  There is an alternative to an x86 emulator library that
just came to my mind: if I remember correctly, there is an SRM callback to
its built-in x86 emulator, which can hopefully be utilised with the help of
a simple kernel module, unless something like Linux PCI re-arrangement
happens to upset SRM.

Nikita