On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:29:48AM +0100, Mark Wilkinson wrote: > Just a quick note to say that I've updated my EPIA howto to include a little > section for the brave on enabling the onboard VGA. > > This is based on Sone Takeshi's work. > > Thanks to Andrew Ip for committing the update to CVS.
Hi Mark, Thank you for your work. Perhaps everyone already forgets about it, but I was asked by Ron for a HOWTO on EPIA+VGA. I started it, but it isn't finished. (I was fiddling with BOOT_IDE etc to include in my documentation...) Now that your HOWTO covers VGA, everything is OK. Some points... - Line 37-40: NOTE: At present, the epia can be booted with a serial console. Power management to turn off the power is not available, neither is the video bios. Memeory is currenly hard coded to report 64M - you must have at least this much memory. You can use video console once VGA is enabled (option VIDEO_CONSOLE=1). It isn't very useful however, since VGA initialization is almost at the end of LinuxBIOS execution. Memory configuration is also fixed already. - Line 364-367: 0 - Disable Framebuffer 1 - 1 Mbyte 2 - 2 Mbytes 8 - 8 Mbytes This is incorrect. Valid values are 2, 4, and 8 (MB). To disable framebuffer, remove the option HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER. Also, now I use folowing lines in the config for the VGA BIOS image to be patched in the romimage: option ZKERNEL_START=0xfffc0000 option VGABIOS_START=0xfffe0000 addaction romimage dd if=/path/to/vgabios.bin of=romimage bs=65536 \ seek=2 conv=sync conv=notrunc This way you don't have to handcraft the vga+eb payload. -- Takeshi _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios