Re: ITP plex86, if it complies to DFSG
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> > > > > Yes, at least by now it depends on that bios, until somebody writes a free
> > > > > bios, I wonder if this would be too dificult :-)
> > > > There is at least one, possibly two.
> > FreeBIOS - http://freebios.sourceforge.net
> > OpenBIOS - http://www.freiburg.linux.de/openbios/
>
> Thanks for those links, sorry for the post to you directly instead of
> posting to the list, my fault.
>
> However, the non-free bios that plex86 depends on is a vga bios, and for
> what I see on those projects, they are about programming a system bios, not
> a vga bios. They don't need it, as they use the VGA card, and it has a BIOS
> already.
Oh. Didn't realise there was a difference.
>
> Wich makes me think that if plex is not loading the VGA bios from the card
> of the machine where it is running, must be because it needs something
> special, maybe not :-??? I'll ask about this also :-)
Well, I'd say it's because it's not directly accessing the card, it's
being rendered in X.
>
> Regards...
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