[haiku] Re: Preinstalling Haiku on new computers.

> Stefano Ceccherini wrote:
> 
> > The only fix would be fixing the vesa bios of the card. If that
> > resolution doesn't work, it means that the vesa BIOS doesn't report
> > it. So it's either someone writes a native (non vesa) driver or
> > someone fixes the bios.
> 
> Dunno if this could be done with this video BIOS specifically but 
> some 
> video BIOS can be patched by software (ATI AtomBIOS, for example) to 
> include the missing resolutions). Note I am not talking about a 
> firmware 
> update.

Not sure it's done this way, but some days ago someone sent a patch to 
qemu-devel about option ROMs being writable to update some stuff...
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-04/msg01550.html

Other possibilities include having the driver register a patched table 
to the VGA BIOS maybe...

François.

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