Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error

2004-07-15 Thread David Aubin




Hello,

 I got the testbios built and tried it and got the following error doing:
./testbios -d 0x200 -t vgabios.bin

 I made my vgabios.bin by doing:
dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=128

The error is:
c000:00dc 6e OUTSB
 AX=1cff BX= CX=ff00 DX=60ac SP=fff4 BP= SI=0002 DI=0002
 DS=0040 ES= SS=0030 CS=c000 IP=00de NV UP DI PL NZ NA PE NC
c000:00dd f4 HALT
halt_sys: file ops.c, line 9804
halted
 AX=1cff BX= CX=ff00 DX=60ac SP=fff4 BP= SI=0002 DI=0002
 DS=0040 ES= SS=0030 CS=c000 IP=00de NV UP DI PL NZ NA PE NC
c000:00de 6e HALT


Can someone please explain this error to me and how to possibly fix it?

I have a Tyan mb with a 2885 chipset. AMD64 chip. And an Nvidia FX 5950 video card.
Any help would be appreciated:)

Thank you,
Dave




Re: Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error

2004-07-15 Thread ron minnich
david hendricks or ollie, can you send david the command line we use for 
our vga cards on tyan mb?

thanks

ron

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Re: Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error

2004-07-15 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 08:01, David Aubin wrote:
 Hello,
 
   I got the testbios built and tried it and got the following error
 doing:
 ./testbios -d 0x200 -t vgabios.bin
 
   I made my vgabios.bin by doing:
 dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=128
 
 The error is:
 c000:00dc 6e  OUTSB
 AX=1cff  BX=  CX=ff00  DX=60ac  SP=fff4  BP=  SI=0002 
 DI=0002
 DS=0040  ES=  SS=0030  CS=c000  IP=00de   NV UP DI PL NZ
 NA PE NC
 c000:00dd f4  HALT
 halt_sys: file ops.c, line 9804
 halted
 AX=1cff  BX=  CX=ff00  DX=60ac  SP=fff4  BP=  SI=0002 
 DI=0002
 DS=0040  ES=  SS=0030  CS=c000  IP=00de   NV UP DI PL NZ
 NA PE NC
 c000:00de 6e  HALT
 
 
 Can someone please explain this error to me and how to possibly fix
 it?
 

It means there was NO ERROR. It ran perfectly. If it is the case, you 
should see acrambled screen at this point. 
 
 I have a Tyan mb with a 2885 chipset.  AMD64 chip.  And an Nvidia FX
 5950 video card.
 Any help would be appreciated:)
 

The correct command line would be:

   ./testbios -s 65536 -d 0x200 -t --abseg /dev/mem ../nvbios.bin

BTW, you need recent CVS tree to make it work on s2885.

Ollie

 Thank you,
 Dave

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Re: Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error

2004-07-15 Thread David Aubin




Yeah, its works:)

Just to recap for anyone reading this thread after me:dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=128

1. Get http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.shtml 
2. Get the freebios2 source
3. Build the freebios2/util/vgabios
 A. You may need to modify makefiles to suit your needs I did
 in order to get it to build under a 64 bit machine. You want 32 bit apps.
4. Do dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=128 on the card when it up and running normally
5. On the target machine, preferably in your initrd
 Put the following line:
 ./testbios -s 65536 -d 0x200 -t --abseg /dev/mem ./vgabios

Thank you for all your help:):):):)

Thanks,
Dave

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 11:58, Li-Ta Lo wrote:

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 08:01, David Aubin wrote:
 Hello,
 
   I got the testbios built and tried it and got the following error
 doing:
 ./testbios -d 0x200 -t vgabios.bin
 
   I made my vgabios.bin by doing:
 dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=128
 
 The error is:
 c000:00dc 6e  OUTSB
 AX=1cff  BX=  CX=ff00  DX=60ac  SP=fff4  BP=  SI=0002 
 DI=0002
 DS=0040  ES=  SS=0030  CS=c000  IP=00de   NV UP DI PL NZ
 NA PE NC
 c000:00dd f4  HALT
 halt_sys: file ops.c, line 9804
 halted
 AX=1cff  BX=  CX=ff00  DX=60ac  SP=fff4  BP=  SI=0002 
 DI=0002
 DS=0040  ES=  SS=0030  CS=c000  IP=00de   NV UP DI PL NZ
 NA PE NC
 c000:00de 6e  HALT
 
 
 Can someone please explain this error to me and how to possibly fix
 it?
 

It means there was NO ERROR. It ran perfectly. If it is the case, you 
should see acrambled screen at this point. 
 
 I have a Tyan mb with a 2885 chipset.  AMD64 chip.  And an Nvidia FX
 5950 video card.
 Any help would be appreciated:)
 

The correct command line would be:

   ./testbios -s 65536 -d 0x200 -t --abseg /dev/mem ../nvbios.bin

BTW, you need recent CVS tree to make it work on s2885.

Ollie

 Thank you,
 Dave






Re: Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error

2004-07-15 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:

 Yeah, its works:)


GREAT!

Wanna write a howto and FAQ?

ron

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Re: Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error

2004-07-15 Thread David Aubin




Hi Ron,

 It is good to give. I think I will, just please don't hold your breath on this.

Thanks,
Dave
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:15, ron minnich wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:

 Yeah, its works:)


GREAT!

Wanna write a howto and FAQ?

ron






Re: Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error

2004-07-15 Thread Hendricks David W.
So what's your current status, anyway? You boot with LinuxBIOS and 
FILO/Etherboot, then log in remotely (Serial or ethernet?) and run the 
testbios, then start X? Are you using framebuffering or anything for 
console support?

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:

 Hi Ron,
 
   It is good to give.  I think I will, just please don't hold your
 breath on this.
 
 Thanks,
 Dave
 On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:15, ron minnich wrote:
 
  On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:
  
   Yeah, its works:)
  
  
  GREAT!
  
  Wanna write a howto and FAQ?
  
  ron
  
 

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Re: Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error

2004-07-15 Thread Hendricks David W.
Sounds good, any HOWTOs you can produce should be an interesting read.

If you have any difficulty with AGP, let us know. We've tested the S2885 
with a GeForce FX 5600 card with nVidia's driver and Linux AGPGART and 
have been rather pleased with the results. 

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:

 Current status is this:
 1.  Boot with linux bios on Tyan MB with 2885 chipset
 2.  Linux bios payload is my custom (static ip support) etherboot with
 filo
 3.  etherboot then remotely retrieves elf image of a 2.6 kernel and
 initrd
 A.  filo with usb does not work for some reason with my setup, it is
 something I want/need
 4.  Then USB stick is mounted with custom initrd to USB support
 5.  Home made 2.6 linux boots up
 6.  inside boot.local I have the call to enable Nvidia bios
 ./testbios -s 65536 -d 0x200 -t --abseg /dev/mem ./vgabios
 7.  Then I have currently xf86config configured to use old nv
 driver(#18?) for x windows.
 A.  I'm in the process now of integrating the new Nvidia driver and
 that is my goal.
 
 Appendix:
 A.  I can log in via serial console or remotely with (tftp, rlogin, ssh
 for debugging)
 
 
 On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:50, Hendricks David W. wrote:
 
  So what's your current status, anyway? You boot with LinuxBIOS and 
  FILO/Etherboot, then log in remotely (Serial or ethernet?) and run the 
  testbios, then start X? Are you using framebuffering or anything for 
  console support?
  
  On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:
  
   Hi Ron,
   
 It is good to give.  I think I will, just please don't hold your
   breath on this.
   
   Thanks,
   Dave
   On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:15, ron minnich wrote:
   
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:

 Yeah, its works:)


GREAT!

Wanna write a howto and FAQ?

ron

   
  
 

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Re: Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error

2004-07-15 Thread David Aubin




I only have a partial hand in it. Another guy here named Jay Miller got me going.
Along with everyone else here who helped me:)

Thanks everybody:)

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 16:18, Hendricks David W. wrote:

Sounds good, any HOWTOs you can produce should be an interesting read.

If you have any difficulty with AGP, let us know. We've tested the S2885 
with a GeForce FX 5600 card with nVidia's driver and Linux AGPGART and 
have been rather pleased with the results. 

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:

 Current status is this:
 1.  Boot with linux bios on Tyan MB with 2885 chipset
 2.  Linux bios payload is my custom (static ip support) etherboot with
 filo
 3.  etherboot then remotely retrieves elf image of a 2.6 kernel and
 initrd
 A.  filo with usb does not work for some reason with my setup, it is
 something I want/need
 4.  Then USB stick is mounted with custom initrd to USB support
 5.  Home made 2.6 linux boots up
 6.  inside boot.local I have the call to enable Nvidia bios
 ./testbios -s 65536 -d 0x200 -t --abseg /dev/mem ./vgabios
 7.  Then I have currently xf86config configured to use old nv
 driver(#18?) for x windows.
 A.  I'm in the process now of integrating the new Nvidia driver and
 that is my goal.
 
 Appendix:
 A.  I can log in via serial console or remotely with (tftp, rlogin, ssh
 for debugging)
 
 
 On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:50, Hendricks David W. wrote:
 
  So what's your current status, anyway? You boot with LinuxBIOS and 
  FILO/Etherboot, then log in remotely (Serial or ethernet?) and run the 
  testbios, then start X? Are you using framebuffering or anything for 
  console support?
  
  On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:
  
   Hi Ron,
   
 It is good to give.  I think I will, just please don't hold your
   breath on this.
   
   Thanks,
   Dave
   On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:15, ron minnich wrote:
   
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:

 Yeah, its works:)


GREAT!

Wanna write a howto and FAQ?

ron