Bios Initialisation for (radeon) graphic cards neccessary?

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/1/06, Christian Leber <cleber at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> do I understand it correctly that it is neccessary to have the bios code
> on the graphic cards (lets say a radeon 7000 pci) executed so that some hardware registers can be set to be able to use it with X?
>
> I'm really lost on the specifics here, google doesn't dig up anything usefull.
>

Almost all current graphics cards require bios initialization to work
properly nowadays.

Alex

> Regards
> Christian Leber
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