ollie lho wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:42, dave wrote:
> > It fails in some library function (RmInitAdapter) for which I don't have the
> > code.
> > XFree86.0.log reports that the nvidia kernel driver failed to initialize.
> > We have no VGA at this point. The theory is that X will start and run on the AGP
> > card.
> > Up to this point I'm using the serial console.
> >
> > Enabling vgabios gives us this:
> > DO THE VGA BIOS
> > found VGA: vid=4318x, did=45x
> > rom base, size: f0000000
> > BAD SIGNATURE 0xff 0xff
> >
> >
>
> It seems that the nvidia VGA BIOS is doing something secretly. And this
> is totally beyond my knowledge, could you post this on the LinuxBIOS
> list ??
>
> Ollie
>
More debug:
DO THE VGA BIOS
found VGA: vid=4318x, did=45x
[after read config PCI_ROM_ADDRESS]
rom base, size: 0 4d da [rom address from card = 0, buf[0]=4d buf[1]=da]
rom base, size: f0000000
[after write PCI_ROM_ADDRESS]
BAD SIGNATURE 0xff 0xff
I'm trying to get the same information from ordinary bios.
