Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040517 22:57]: > guilty as charged. I tried to make it readable but had no idea that we > would need a table. Ignorance on my part. Not in this case as David explained. I actually assumed there was some problem with 16<-->32bit jumping if an option rom is allowe

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Dave Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040518 02:39]: > Note these int21 handler code was required for getting the vgabios working > on the EPIA-M. Whether the thing is a case statement or a table is > irrelevant, the case statement approach allows for endless customization. So, in an award setup this

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working ...

2004-05-18 Thread Mathieu Deschamps
ok so this is what i aim to. Le lun 17/05/2004 Ã 22:48, ron minnich a Ãcrit : > On 17 May 2004, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: > > > INSTALL REAL-MODE IDT > > DO THE VGA BIOS > > found VGA: vid=1106, did=3122 > > write_protect_vgabios > > 0x55 0xaa 0x70 0xe9 0xfc 0x7f 0x8b 0x1b 0x34 0xde 0xca 0x83 0x0

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-17 Thread Dave Ashley
> b8? Anybody know what that one is? The vgabios itself has a bug in it. The b8 is an invalid INT # and what has happened is the vgabios code itself has crashed and is executing randomly. On the EPIA-M I had seen this problem on certain units where if the motherboard got too hot (but not really th

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-17 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > There's a potential hint in src/arch/i386/lib/idt.c:biosint(): > > // cases in a good compiler are just as good as your own tables. > switch (intnumber) { > case 0 ... 15: > [..] > #ifdef CONFIG_PCIBIOS >

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working ...

2004-05-17 Thread ron minnich
On 17 May 2004, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: > INSTALL REAL-MODE IDT > DO THE VGA BIOS > found VGA: vid=1106, did=3122 > write_protect_vgabios > 0x55 0xaa 0x70 0xe9 0xfc 0x7f 0x8b 0x1b 0x34 0xde 0xca 0x83 0x0 0x0 0x0 > 0x0 bus/ that means it is ok. ___ Li

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040517 17:51]: > There needs to be some way to call into interrupts set up by the > executed option rom, or otherwise functions like handleint21() will have > to be added and changed for every minor release of a vga bios update. There's a potential hint in sr

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Ignacio Verona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040516 22:07]: > biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f01 ebx 0xc01 ecx 0x700 edx 0x112 > biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xf8e edi 0xac51 esi 0x1aacd > biosint: ip 0x6448 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 > biosint: # 0xb8, eax 0x707 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x700 edx 0x0 > biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xfc0

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Nathanael Noblet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040517 17:18]: > >>biosint: Unsupport int #0xb8 > > > >b8? Anybody know what that one is? > > It has something to do with VGA, I had similar problems (have been back > to them so they are most likely still there). The Unsupported int > number would change

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-17 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 07:08 PM, ron minnich wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ignacio Verona wrote: biosint: # 0xb8, eax 0x707 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x700 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xfc0 edi 0xb880 esi 0x1010a biosint: ip 0x188 cs 0xc000 flags 0x246 biosint: Unsupport int #0xb8 b8? Anybody know what t

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working ...

2004-05-17 Thread Mathieu Deschamps
well you can try to V2 but you'll see that VGA bios isn't as far "worked" as it is in v1. I'am not as far as you've gone, because you have this i don't: INSTALL REAL-MODE IDT DO THE VGA BIOS found VGA: vid=1106, did=3122 write_protect_vgabios 0x55 0xaa 0x70 0xe9 0xfc 0x7f 0x8b 0x1b 0x34 0xde 0xca

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working ...

2004-05-17 Thread Ignacio Verona
Ron: Thanks for your answ. Reading the serial output can you say something about the PCMCIA problem? And what about tft? May be cause VGA no to work? Right now I do not have any CRTs here... Mathieu: Yes, I'm on v1 right now. And about the combined filo+vgabios payload this is what I do for creati

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-16 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ignacio Verona wrote: > biosint: # 0xb8, eax 0x707 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x700 edx 0x0 > biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xfc0 edi 0xb880 esi 0x1010a > biosint: ip 0x188 cs 0xc000 flags 0x246 > biosint: Unsupport int #0xb8 b8? Anybody know what that one is? ron _

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-16 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ignacio Verona wrote: > 1. I can't get VGA to work. I've extracted it from a original-bios booted > system with > dd if=/proc/kcore of=video.bios.bin bs=1 count=65536 skip=790528 > and then appended it to my filo payload like the HOWTO says I've to do, > and modified the c

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-16 Thread Ignacio Verona
Here is the complete log of my bootup process, from bios to log-in... I can't understand so much of the bios part :( LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Sun May 16 23:28:22 CEST 2004 starting... 80 08 07 0d 0a 02 40 00 04 60 70 00 82 08 00 01 0e ff 0c ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 48 30 ff ff 40 75 75 45 45 00 00 00 00 00

Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-16 Thread Ignacio Verona
Hi! Linuxbios is working prety well now on my Epia mII 10k, but a few problems: 1. I can't get VGA to work. I've extracted it from a original-bios booted system with dd if=/proc/kcore of=video.bios.bin bs=1 count=65536 skip=790528 and then appended it to my filo payload like the HOWTO says I'v