Summarization on using ADLO to bring up VGA

2004-09-07 Thread Gerald Chiu
perhaps it would make sense to summarize lessons learned and send them to list, so that whoever will play with ADLO next can benefit from the knowledge Ok,after Richard Smith's help ,I succeded in booting linux with VGA supported. Mainboard: intel 440bx Video Card: S3 Trio64V+ (PCI card)

Re: VGA Problem about 440bx chipset

2004-09-07 Thread Gerald Chiu
Hello,Adam, I have problem on booting win2000,but the ADLO status said win2k is fully supported. The information displayed on screen is below: === Please select the operating system to start: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Microsoft Windows 98 Use your arrow keys to move the

Re: VGA Problem about 440bx chipset

2004-09-07 Thread Adam Sulmicki
umm. that part was unfortunatelly a bit of black magic. make sure you have mouse on your ps2 port. win2k would freak out for some reason if it did not. also you may want to edit the win2k config files not to display that prompt but go straight to win2k and see if it helps. then you may want to

Re: VGA Problem about 440bx chipset

2004-09-07 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Chiu Gerald wrote: I use another S3 video card,and succeeded in bringing up the VGA,and booted RedHat linux. a little email describing the whole procedure would be welcome. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VIA fastboot MII debug message

2004-09-07 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found something interesting. I was playing around with VIA's fastboot debug USB-boot BIOS image for the Epia MII and came across a linuxbios message at the very end after the bootloader complained about not finding a suitable USB boot

Re: linuxbios can work on QDIA6T MB

2004-09-07 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, zhu shi song wrote: My linuxbios (V1) can boot my linux(linux-2.4.26) well. And I can login on serial tty. But vga can't work. There is still one problem that reboot linux make MB halt. When I reboot my linux, the MB halt while bios post code equal 0x10. 10 is a

Re: epia m vga + memcpy failed

2004-09-07 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to figure why VGA wasn't being properly set on my epia m when I found that the code in mainboard.c was looking for device id 0x3123 while my epia m has device id 0x3122 for the CLE266. After changing the id, memcpy is failing to copy

Re: EPIA-M build problem for freebios2

2004-09-07 Thread Dan Sully
* ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] shaped the electrons to say... I've tried V2, but it just hangs when rebooted with no console or serial output. OK, I have an epia-m here and next week if there is time we'll try it out. Hi Ron - did ya'll get a chance to work on this at all? Thanks! -D -- You know,

RE: [Etherboot-developers] lb+eb+filo in epia-5000

2004-09-07 Thread Yinghai Lu
Are you using the last patch? What's your USB controller model and etc? Regards YH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of elife elife Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 7:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: VGA Problem about 440bx chipset

2004-09-07 Thread Richard Smith
Wow! I got it! I use another S3 video card,and succeeded in bringing up the VGA,and Excellent. Its really touchy about what VBIOS will work and what won't. I haven't been able to narrow it down as to what the missing piece is yet. ATI seems to be the worst though. Probally because of all

RE: [Etherboot-developers] lb+eb+filo in epia-5000

2004-09-07 Thread elife elife
Hi Yinghai Lu, I don't know whether I am using the last patch. Where can I find the last patch? I browse the eb's cvs tree but seems filo not merge yet. My hardware is VIA EPIA-5000 board. The output of lspci just said 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev

Re: EPIA-M build problem for freebios2

2004-09-07 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Dan Sully wrote: Hi Ron - did ya'll get a chance to work on this at all? no, sorry, will try this week :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: VGA Problem about 440bx chipset

2004-09-07 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Richard Smith wrote: option SHADOW_VGA_BIOS=1 option SHADOW_VGA_BIOS_DEST=0xC we'll put this on the list, though not quite this way (unless you want it in V1) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VGA Problem about 440bx chipset

2004-09-07 Thread Richard Smith
ron minnich wrote: option SHADOW_VGA_BIOS=1 option SHADOW_VGA_BIOS_DEST=0xC we'll put this on the list, though not quite this way (unless you want it in V1) Well until myself or some other industrious soul ports the 440bx stuff to V2 its not much use to me unless its V1. It dosen't really

epia m vga + memcpy failed

2004-09-07 Thread Trellix78
That message is from the original freebios. I was thinking that shadowing is not corretly set up and that maybe the segment is write-protected. After setting up shadowing, the chipset my turn on write protection by default, anyway. I don't know how to turn write protection off specifically

Re: EPIA-M build problem for freebios2

2004-09-07 Thread Dmitry Borisov
From: ron minnich To: Dan Sully [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 3:54 PM Subject: Re: EPIA-M build problem for freebios2 On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Dan Sully wrote: Hi Ron - did ya'll get a chance to work on this at all?

Re: epia m vga + memcpy failed

2004-09-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:15:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That message is from the original freebios. I was thinking that shadowing is not corretly set up and that maybe the segment is write-protected. After setting up shadowing, the chipset my turn on write protection by default,

Re: EPIA-M build problem for freebios2

2004-09-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:48:38PM -0700, Dmitry Borisov wrote: Hi Ron - did ya'll get a chance to work on this at all? no, sorry, will try this week :-) ron C'mon Ron, You just lazy. Jump on it ! Dmitry/ Dmitry, I believe most readers on the list do understand that this was

Re: VGA Problem about 440bx chipset

2004-09-07 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
It dosen't really matter to me how its implemented in V1. If you have what you think is the right way then I'm game. And if someone will guide me through what needs to be done in the PCI allocation stuff I'll give it a whirl but at first blush that PCI allocation stuff appears fairly

Re: EPIA-M build problem for freebios2

2004-09-07 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
C'mon Ron, You just lazy. Jump on it ! Dmitry/ I would but it really cuts into my nap time :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: EPIA-M build problem for freebios2

2004-09-07 Thread Dmitry Borisov
:) - Original Message - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:14 PM Subject: Re: EPIA-M build problem for freebios2 Dmitry, I believe most readers on the list do understand that this was just a joke, but you could've afforded a smiley anyway. I'm just glad

Re: epia m vga + memcpy failed

2004-09-07 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Peter Stuge wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:15:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That message is from the original freebios. I was thinking that shadowing is not corretly set up and that maybe the segment is write-protected. After setting up shadowing, the