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> 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)
It probably could - the sticky point would be getting the BIOS data that
needs to be downloaded. (I assume you're talking about IBM's Mwave sound
cards in their thinkpads, right? In that case, a DOS program simply
instructs the Mwave what to emulate. AFAIK, of course :-))
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