On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Andrew Bolster <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 July 2011 15:31, Benjamin Henrion <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Andrew Bolster <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > I only started looking into coreboot yesterday, so forgive the >> > incoming naivety. >> > Can anyone point me in the direction of how to set up coreboot + seabios >> > so that it actually uses the VGA? I've got the system up and running and >> > talking to me over the OS's services fine, so all is working except for the >> > VGA. >> > I've tried the rational combinations of enabling and disabling the >> > option roms, but I assume that I need a vgabios.bin? This board is a PC >> > Engines ALIX3D3 (http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm), and I can't seem to >> > find any information on how to go about fixing the geode vga output. >> >> This is my experience with it: >> >> http://www.zoobab.com/alix-1c >> >> I still need to find the time to recover the firmware with an PLC >> homemade adaptor (parallel port or arduino based). >> >> -- >> Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org> >> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403 >> "In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software >> patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. >> Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction the patentability of >> software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent >> court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their >> favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or >> democratically elected legislators." > > I saw your work, but unfortunately by the time I got to your page I had > already sorted out the vsa issues. Fortunately I've been using a > piggy-backed ROM so if/when it all goes kaput I just pull the LPC module. > VGA isn't even a major problem for the product I'm working on, but I really > can't understand how such an otherwise awesome chipset has missed out of VGA > :S > Thanks anyway Benjamin. >
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