Re: unconfigured generic ATI VGA card?

["Malcolm Herbert" <mjch%mjch.net@localhost>]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:31:22 +0100, "Quentin Garnier" 
<cube%cubidou.net@localhost>
said:
> > > You need to find a way to get vga* to attach:
> > > 
> > > vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: NVIDIA Vanta (rev. 0x15)
> > 
> > ... so why wouldn't it?  Is it because this system is generally
> > expecting a serial console only?  If I power on the host with the
> > monitor plugged in I don't get the typical video-card greet (nor the
> > BIOS greet, but I wasn't really expecting that, tbh).
> 
> vga(4) actually drives the ISA interface.  On the Soekris, the ISA
> registers for the VGA aren't mapped to anything.

hmmm ... are there variants of the vga driver which uses the PCI
registers?
(assuming I understood what you meant)

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