Via passing out linuxbios with out GPL?

2005-02-09 Thread Adam Talbot
-Linux bios team http://www.viaarena.com/guides/WinCE/fastboot%20v2.03.zip Looks like via is passing out linux bios, with out ever saying any thing about GPL or linuxbios.org... -Adam ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clus

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread YhLu
The one works. --- AGP 2.0 ~ # lspci -vvxxx -s 2:0.0 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25GL [Quadro4 750 XGL] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0139 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step

Re: Tyan Opteron board with LinuxBIOS for production environment?

2005-02-09 Thread David Hendricks
Dr. Lu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is your man. He frequents here, stay tuned and you'll get to see him at work. Did you have a particular Tyan board in mind? I know Dr. Lu's been doing a lot of work on the newer Intel boards, but we had also had S2881 and S2885 dual Opteron mainboards working quite in ou

Re: VIA EPIA FILO boot problems

2005-02-09 Thread Richard Smith
> find_ide_controller: found PCI IDE controller 1106:0571 prog_if=0x8f > find_ide_controller: primary channel: native PCI mode > find_ide_controller: cmd_base=0x0 ctrl_base=0x0 > ide_software_reset: Waiting for ide0 to become ready for reset... ok I'd say your cmd and ctl base registers should be

VIA EPIA FILO boot problems

2005-02-09 Thread Spencer Stucki
I'm having problems getting filo to recognize any ide drive connected. Ultimately I'd like to boot off of a cf card. I'm using the default configs for via/epia/Config.ituner.filo.lb, except I turned up the console log level, changed RAM settings to PC133 and CL2 to match the ram... Here is the

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread YhLu
I just tested five agp cards works on: 1. Nvidia NV25 GL ( Quadro4 750XGL) 2. ATI Fire GLX1 Fail: 1. Nvidia FX5800 2. Nvidia FX3000 (Quadro) 3. Nvidia FX1000 (Duadro) YH > -Original Message- > From: YhLu > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:50 AM > To: Li-Ta Lo; Ronald G. Minnich >

Tyan Opteron board with LinuxBIOS for production environment?

2005-02-09 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Hi, I wonder if someone can advise me about this. Tyan looks promising for us, due to longer product life cycles and 3 year warranty. We would like to build identical servers for as long as possible, to minimize our engineering and integration costs. We would also like to use LinuxBIOS for se

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, YhLu wrote: > Is it possiable that AGP graphics card can not get enough Power for PSU? no, that's not it. AGP worked under fuctory bios. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread YhLu
Ron, The PCI card works well when init is done in LinuxBIOS. but if use Linux enable only + testbios, you will get scrambled screen but the X works well. So If you can make X works under testbios, you may don't need to wory about scrambled text screen. Also Is it possiable that AGP graphics ca

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > Did you get scrambled screen or a blank one? for our cards, we get one scrambled screen, and one blank one. In X, we get a scrambled screen. here's a great one. For the NV5500 ($500 card), if we don't connect the external hard drive power connector, the

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > Is the routing correct? Can you see the vbios image at 0xc? it seems to be right -- I see the vbios image. But: it seems the a000 space is not right. Not sure yet. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@c

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:37, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > > > Is the routing correct? Can you see the vbios image at 0xc? > > it seems to be right -- I see the vbios image. > > But: it seems the a000 space is not right. Not sure yet. > > ron I just did

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread YhLu
I'm back to office, and I could do some test on that today. YH > -Original Message- > From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:28 AM > To: Ronald G. Minnich > Cc: YhLu; Stefan Reinauer; LinuxBIOS > Subject: RE: VGA option rom code broken? > > On W

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread YhLu
I will modify your MB Config please check it out. YH > -Original Message- > From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:37 AM > To: YhLu > Cc: Li-Ta Lo; LinuxBIOS > Subject: Re: VGA option rom code broken? > > * YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0502

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:22, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, YhLu wrote: > > > But I guess the problem is about Emulator, and Ron is digging that on > > S2885 now. With LinuxBIOS (enable VGA and copy that to RAM but don't > > run_BIOS) + test bios. > > some more detail on this. We

RE: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, YhLu wrote: > But I guess the problem is about Emulator, and Ron is digging that on > S2885 now. With LinuxBIOS (enable VGA and copy that to RAM but don't > run_BIOS) + test bios. some more detail on this. We have temporarily modified linuxbios to do everything EXCEPT actua

Re: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > YhLu reversed the order of apic_cluster and northbridge in mainboard > config file. Did you change your config file too? uh oh. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.or

Re: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Last time I tried before was 2005-01-25. It worked fine then. based on what I am seeing here, I wonder if somebody busted the routing code in 18:1 and 19:1? I no longer see the 'advertisement' when we start the card up. is the 0xc000 mapping still

Re: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > There is no change to the emulator since last Friday. I tested the > (then) current CVS tree on that day. Did the emulator ever work on your > platform? Stefan, we have hit a few new cards that are causing trouble for the emulator and I don't know the full

Re: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > Did you actually commit some of your change? The emulator stop emulating > the PCI bios. I don't believe I have committed any changes. You can check the cvs. Somebody busted something in the last few days. This problem highlights the many deficiencies of

Re: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050208 22:32]: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 13:53, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > No, do I need to? What is the exact benefit except only having to > > mention one apic_cluster? If this is the problem we will have to change > > it in most ports I guess. > > > > It should no

Re: VGA option rom code broken?

2005-02-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050209 01:48]: > Stefan, > > What's the onboard VGA? are your talking about onboard one? > > YH Yes, it is an onboard rage xl. Pretty much the same as on all opteron boards i guess. It looks like x86emu can't see the rom itself? I manually checked the image and it lo