On 19-Dec-98 Phil Brutsche wrote: > Yes, it is possible - S3 has available on their web site a program called > s3vbe20.exe that will load a VESA 2.0 BIOS onto the card - works like a > charm on my S3 Virge. I've used it successfully with the vesafb > driver+loadlin.
could this not be done like some of the soundcards
just download the bios using a special ioctl
then no dos required to boot linux (which kind of sticks in my thoat)
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simon
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