About a week ago I attempted the update the firmware on a BTest-2 machine from q2c11 to q2e15. There were no error messages, but after it shut down the screen no longer turns on. The EC seems to be working (mostly at least) ok.
The idea was to test SqueakNOS but its boot.fth file uses commands that were not implemented in q2c11. Attempts to manually use the old commands to boot resulted in a messed up screen for about a second followed by an automatic reboot. So I downloaded q2e15 and did the upgrade (the better was at about 85% rather than completely full). Now pressing the power button will cause the power led to light up but no others and the screen remains off. Two very slight clicks can be heard on both speakers every two seconds. Pressing the power button long enough will make the power led turn off. I suspected that the download might have been bad and so downloaded it again using a different web browser, but the result was bit identical to what I had used in the upgrade. Plugging the machine into the external power makes the battery led light up yellow for a few minutes, but then it starts to blink red very slowly. The battery has to be removed for that to stop. Removing the external power sometimes causes a lot of noise (from the speakers, I guess). I know that newer versions of the OS can't be used on such an old machine and had expected there to be limits for the firmware too, but everything I found on the wiki indicated that all versions are compatible with it (only ATest has limits). While it is easy for me to make a serial cable to get more details about what it going on and to flash another version of the firmware, a lack of time will keep me from doing this in the next few weeks. -- Jecel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
