Re: Upload to generic

2004-02-05 Thread Hendricks David W.
Yes, that is possible. However, Asus sometimes does some weird stuff with their SMbus, so it might not be possible to make a port for your mainboard without some documentation from Asus. On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Carl Peto wrote: > I am new to LinuxBIOS but have years of Linux experience. > > I woul

Re: EPIA-M linuxbios reset button does not work

2004-02-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* "Dmitry Borisov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040205 20:19]: > I just realized that besides the performance problems of video > subsystem on my EPIA-M I have another small one. When I use regular > BIOS my linux can identify that reset or power button was pressed and > do some actions accrodingly. In c

Re: vga emulator new version

2004-02-05 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > Actually, I suspect that this has already been implemented in the > original XFree86 version. Ron has removed/disgarded some good things > when porting it to LB. yes, I sure did, there was stuff in there I did not like but it turns out we need it :=( ron _

Re: vga emulator new version

2004-02-05 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Cool. If this works, SCSI option roms could also be used to boot from > after they installed an int13 handler... that makes my brain hurt :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clus

EPIA-M linuxbios reset button does not work

2004-02-05 Thread "Dmitry Borisov"
Hi, I just realized that besides the performance problems of video subsystem on my EPIA-M I have another small one. When I use regular BIOS my linux can identify that reset or power button was pressed and do some actions accrodingly. In case of linuxbios it cannot. Does anyone have any suggestion

Re: vga emulator new version

2004-02-05 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 11:28, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040205 18:58]: > > Not yet. The bios on Nvidia card has a specific feature > > to not calling itself by intX. Other cards like ATI > > want to install the intX handlers and then call them. > > Currently the emulat

Re: vga emulator new version

2004-02-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040205 18:58]: > Not yet. The bios on Nvidia card has a specific feature > to not calling itself by intX. Other cards like ATI > want to install the intX handlers and then call them. > Currently the emulator can not handle this but it is > very simple to add this. C

Re: vga emulator new version

2004-02-05 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > Should it be from AGP bridge ?? oops, yes it should. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: vga emulator new version

2004-02-05 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 11:09, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > Great work! > > > > Does it automagically work with many different cards? :p > > it's still held together with rubber bands, there is work to do now to get > linuxbios to do the right things. > > Wh

Re: vga emulator new version

2004-02-05 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Peter Stuge wrote: > Great work! > > Does it automagically work with many different cards? :p it's still held together with rubber bands, there is work to do now to get linuxbios to do the right things. What you have to do right now by hand (wrmsr, setpci, etc.) - get a vi

Re: vga emulator new version

2004-02-05 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 10:45, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:20:05AM -0700, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > > It is done. We have AGP 8x and HW 3D acceleration > > now. We can even run tuxracer ;-). > > Great work! > > Does it automagically work with many different cards? :p > > Not yet. The

Re: vga emulator new version

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:20:05AM -0700, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > It is done. We have AGP 8x and HW 3D acceleration > now. We can even run tuxracer ;-). Great work! Does it automagically work with many different cards? :p //Peter ___ Linuxbios mailing list

Re: vga emulator new version

2004-02-05 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 20:34, ron minnich wrote: > On 4 Feb 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > This won't work on K8 systems minus some hacks, due to K8 differences, > > > contact me if interested. > > > > This will or won't work on K8 systems? > > What we've found so far: > - K8 mtrr settin

Re: list of BIOSes supporting booting from USB flash disk

2004-02-05 Thread Pedro M.
Jing S. Tang wrote: > Hi, > > I've written a linux HOWTO on how to create a Linux > bootable flash disk: > http://www.freewebs.com/tsj/bootingUSB_ldp_v0.1.htm > > I'd like to put a list of BIOSes which support booting > from the USB flash disk (USB keydrives) in my > document. > > Could some exp

new linuxbios v1 mainboard added

2004-02-05 Thread ron minnich
chaintech 7kjd. I didn't do it, and I just forgot the name of the guy who did, but I hope he will pop in and comment on it. This seems like a neat little board. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listi

Re: OpenFirmware and interrupt-map

2004-02-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040205 02:39]: > Some SCSI addon card has another EEPROM for FW, and the controller will work > after power is on. > > For onboard SCSI, may spare that EEPROM and need option rom to download fw > into it. >From what I heard about the LSI1030, nobody ever built a board

Upload to generic

2004-02-05 Thread Carl Peto
I am new to LinuxBIOS but have years of Linux experience. I would like to upgrade my test PC to LinuxBIOS but do not want to replace the existing motherboard. Is it possible to "flash" LinuxBIOS into a standard motherboard, like mine. I have an ASUS motherboard K7A or something like that. Also i

Motherboard for LinuxBIOS & DOC

2004-02-05 Thread Eric BENARD / Free
Hi, A few year ago I've been using a Matsonic MS7308E with a 8 MB Disc On Chip (DIP32) and LinuxBios. The Linux filesystem (jffs2) was embedded in the DOC and everything was booting in less than 1 or 2 seconds. I would like to setup the same configuration but the only thing I have is the DOC a

list of BIOSes supporting booting from USB flash disk

2004-02-05 Thread Jing S. Tang
Hi, I've written a linux HOWTO on how to create a Linux bootable flash disk: http://www.freewebs.com/tsj/bootingUSB_ldp_v0.1.htm I'd like to put a list of BIOSes which support booting from the USB flash disk (USB keydrives) in my document. Could some experts at linuxbios please provide this kind

Re: Build problem - %rdx used with `l' suffix

2004-02-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Tarl Neustaedter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040205 01:45]: > As it happens, I'm getting that error building arima/hdama from > an Opteron (it was suggested as a good starting point for a working > prom that I could branch off from). It looks like the code in romcc > has changed enough that the fix does