From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUnKm-000810-04 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 10:00:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUnKk-0007z3-8X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 10:00:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BUnKk-0007yv-5h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 10:00:10 -0400 Received: from [62.253.162.44] (helo=mta04-svc.ntlworld.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BUnKU-0002W1-HQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 09:59:54 -0400 Received: from [10.10.10.100] ([81.107.87.144]) by mta04-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20040531135906.NQGT24958.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@[10.10.10.100]> for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 14:59:06 +0100 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VGA BIOS source code From: Antony T Curtis In-Reply-To: <40BB3784.9020202@fabianowski.de> References: <40BB3784.9020202@fabianowski.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1086011986.347.77.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 14:59:46 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 14:47, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > I am trying to get SVGA graphics modes to work under Windows 98. > Currently, the only known way of accomplishing this is to install SDD 7 > beta, which is a 21 day test version, along with some obscure VxD file. > I'd prefer to fix the VBE support and be able to run SDD 6.53, which is > free. > > Now, in order to fiddle with the VBE implementation, I need to have > access to the VGA BIOS source code. QEMU is using the same lgpl BIOS as > Bochs and plex86. Its homepage is http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/. > However, none of the download links on that page work, the page seems to > have been abandoned for some time, and all the mailing lists seem to be > dead. > > So, my question is, does anybody have the current source code used to > create the lgpl VGA BIOS? The current version should be something like 0.4c. I successfully checked it out from the CVS repository. Instructions at http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group_id=891 --