i changed my radeon with a vodoo5 5500.
bad thing is i earlier moved voodoo from monitors to storage. now i can't boot morphos.
how can i get a shell prompt to copy voodoo file back in devs:monitors or can i copy it from OF?
Please help
Stefano

Well, why don`t you just boot from your MOS Install CD and copy back your files then?
MOS CD should allways work.

About a year or two ago I suggested that when you press control (or whatever) while booting, it would take you to plain shell.

Well that much for a good suggestion, never was realised ;)

@hooligan

That would not help in this case. No gfx driver, nothing to display a shell.


@stefa308

Use the bootcd to restore your system. But you don't have to remove unused drivers. When some gfx hardware is not available in the machine, its driver just quits and doesn't eat resource/memory.

@Henes: what about VESA support ? It would require some sort of x86 emulation but would allow to use *any* gfxcard on MorphOS which is limited to a small number today...

Leo.

I asked for years for some crappy VESA support, it was even on the MOS featurelist, but when I asked too much when nothing happened, Cyberfrank just said NO, and that's the whole story. ;-P

@Henes:

It just quits? What if you hotplug a gfxcard (maybe in future with different bus), will it be recognized again and load the driver? :)

[ Edited by tarbos on 2004/10/24 1:04 ]

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What do you mean? Wasn't it demonstrated at Saku meeting a while ago?