New Parhelia Bios for Linux Users

[VCBoy]

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/bios/home2.cfm

New Parhelia bios for Linux users.

[a_h]

What a shock! Do they actually start to care about the linuxers? Hey I hope they don't decrease now the win support ;-))

Hannes

[lecter]

I don't quite comprehend this...it's a special BIOS for people that want to use just Linux? Or is it a plain BIOS with the sole difference that you can flash it from within Linux? Either way, it makes no sense to me

[Marshmallowman]

its a linux based bios installer, so you don't need windows to update your bios

seems like a very positive (if odd) linux move

[Nicram]

It's good, it gives possibility to enable TV Output in text mode for QID cards.

[gorg]

It means that people are no longer expected to pirate or unnecessarily spend money (and time) on software they are not going to use, something that is definetely positive.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by gorg
It means that people are no longer expected to pirate or unnecessarily spend money (and time) on software they are not going to use, something that is definetely positive.

No, it doesn't mean that. The old utility would work on a FreeDOS or PC/DOS boot disk.

[leech]

This IS still nice though, means that you don't have to reboot to flash the bios twice... Just once, of course to utilize the Bios. Does this include the LogoFix utility as well? (and hopefully, this means a new driver soon.....)

Leech

[The PIT]

Flashing the bios twice

[Ribbit]

Rebooting twice, flashing the bios once.

[leech]

oops, Yeah, that's what I meant. Damn chemicals at work are rotting my brain, what can I say.....

You don't have to reboot twice, just download the bios utilities under linux, flash it and then reboot..... Just ONE reboot, rather than downloading the DOS version of it, running it in DOS and flashing it, then reboot again to go back to linux..

I don't know if I'd trust flashing a bios under FreeDOS or a Dos emulator or anything, that's for sure.

Leech

[Wombat]

Originally posted by leech

I don't know if I'd trust flashing a bios under FreeDOS or a Dos emulator or anything, that's for sure.

Matrox uses a FreeDOS floppy, I thought. I remember for certain that they used DOS4GW, and I don't trust that all too much.