EFI- intel xorg-driver for Macbook

[Peter Weber]

That's great. Will test it this weekend!



On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 14:49 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:53 pm Peter Weber wrote:
> > The graphic's drivers from Intel really on the VideoBIOS, which is (of
> > course?) not available on an EFI-Platform.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The X.org / XFree86 drivers for Intel and ATI hardware require a Video
> > BIOS to initialize the card. The Linux text console also relies on the
> > Video BIOS. Apple’s firmware only provides a Video BIOS when booting in
> > BIOS compatibility mode. Without it, you only get unaccellerated frame
> > buffer graphics.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Source http://refit.sourceforge.net/myths/
> 
> Sorry I trimmed all this stuff since it looked like an out-of-hand .sig at 
> first glance.  It looks like the refit.sf.net "myths" page has a few errors.  
> Maybe you can mail them and ask them to correct the info about the intel X 
> driver?
> 
> Jesse