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 d

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 wro

Re: Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error

2004-07-15 Thread David Aubin
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,

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

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 ron minnich
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote: > Yeah, its works:) GREAT! Wanna write a howto and FAQ? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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 s

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 6

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 ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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=60a