Re: S3 928 X server available

Jim Paradis (paradis@amt.tay1.dec.com)
Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:39:57 -0500 (EDT)

> Actually, I tried the server on my #9 GXE64 PCI yesterday and, except
> for bitmaps, it worked all right. For example, the default root
> bitmap just shows as black. Cursor is all white, but emacs and xterm
> work fine. This was on a Noname running the SRM console.
^^^^^^^^^^^

Ahhhhh... that's the difference! The SRM console has the BIOS emulator
in it, so it actually ran the BIOS before bringing up the board....

We've been using MILO whenever we can; so we only get our explicit
initialization.

Gotta get a handle on the BIOS-emulation problem...

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