Hello, the folllowing is probably not the best-worded E-mail ever (especially
as someone completely new here even though a laptop I use has been running
Coreboot for some time), but I hope it can still be understood anyway and
without coming off in a negative way.
Tl;DR:
1. Possible new Asus p8h61-m-lx2 port
2. Coreboot + PCI-E dGPU + Windows install how (if someone here has expertise
in setting up something like that)?
3. where/how to get i3-2100 vbios?
1. I was tempted by a relatively well-priced p8h61-m-lx2 with the hope of
compatibility with the p8h61-m-lx preset, but I couldn't get the p8h61-m-lx2 to
work with the p8h61-m-lx's preset, and while I haven't tried the one made for
the p8h61-m-lx3 I have run Autoport on the p8h61-m-lx2 and (p.s. I don't really
know what I'm doing) after some copying and pasting from the p8h61-m-lx folder
and commenting out some of the lines Autoport generated it seems to boot. I
think it may be a good idea to upload those Autoport results, but how exactly
would I do that? (uploading the entire Coreboot directory complete with the GCC
I believe would've been built inside of it along with various binary blobs
would probably not be very wise?) I suspect just uploading the
src/mainboard/system_manufacturer directory that was generated may be enough
(or maybe do a new git clone of coreboot's repository manually 'patching' that
with the generated folder plus some renaming and some edits to the relevant
Kconfig files and uploading the 'patched' version somewhere?) but perhaps I
missed something else Autoport spat out.
Working: ps/2 keyboard (in Seabios at least), i3-2100 iGPU with libgfxinit,
PCI-E dGPU (booted with nomodeset but my video card doesn't seem to play well
with Linux with the default settings regardless of BIOS) either with Graphics
initialisation set to none or to the Card's vbios, Ethernet, Sound output to
headphones, (probably all) USB ports, USB headers (only tested one at a time
but all seem to work), PCI-E USB 3.0 card (only tested in Seabios).
Problem: I only had one Sata storage drive connected and it seems only the one
SATA port to which it was connected when I ran Autoport worked once Coreboot
was installed (ran Autoport at least twice and different ports when Autoport
ran seem to have resulted in different operational ports under Coreboot).
Untested: Suspend, etc
2. Does anyone have experience of Installing Windows on a desktop Sandy/Ivy
Bridge (or perhaps Haswell, using a patch that was never merged
notwithstanding) system with coreboot on it (set to use a dGPU's vbios, I don't
think Windows' installer can be accessed when booting with libgfxinit)? I'm
thinking about trying to install Windows on the system with coreboot present
but as coreboot's documentation warned I was met with a BSOD. The closest I
seem to have come to a solution is booting that system (with coreboot set to
load a vbios blob) into a distro and then using SSDTtime to extract what I
believe can be referred to as the ACPI's .aml file, decompiling that with iasl,
and then have the result of that replace the dsdt.asl present in the
motherboard's directory, and then rebuild coreboot and flash the resulting BIOS.
The problem then for me was that while the computer somehow made it to the
windows installer without a bluescreen, I couldn't get any input from the
keyboard or mouse to work.
I'm honestly about out of ideas and ready to give up on that exercise, but I
suppose asking here one last time if someone actually has done something like
that successfully before actually giving up can't hurt.
3. One idea I haven't properly tested on the p8h61-m-lx2: does someone know
where a vbios for the i3-2100 can be obtained? One thing I haven't really tried
is installing Windows with the iGPU's vbios (a laptop from that era being able
to run windows 10 for me when compiled with the vbios was the reason I thought
the entire idea of coreboot + dGPU + Windows should be possible). I've got an
i3-2100, how can I get the correct vbios file for it (assuming it would work as
well as on the laptop?). I've tried the vbios files from I believe "Driver
Revision:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22520/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-Driver-for-Windows-7-Windows-Vista-64-Bit-zip-?wapkw=15.22.58.64.2993
but none seem to work at all. While the web page implies that it only works
with earlier iGPUs the readmes in the actual archive did make a reference to
2nd-gen processors, which kind of gave me hope.
Assuming I do manage to make it work with an iGPU vbios, would planning to have
Windows be able to use a dGPU be overoptimistic?
Thanks in advance for the response.
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