On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:07:20PM +0200, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > I've tried Harald Gutman's ACPI patch for gigabyte m57sli and I can > successfully boot Linux with it (straight from flash, 2MB), and, as a > bonus, the proprietary NVIDIA driver for X works too with full glx > acceleration, hurray! > > There are still some errors in dmesg regarding ACPI, though, which is > probably why the powernow cpu frequency scaling doesn't work yet. Most > notably the FACP checksum is incorrect. > > For some strange reason, the ethernet device is 'renamed' to eth1, eth0 > doesn't work.
That's probably caused by udev, because the mac address for the network device is stored in the rom image (talk about an ... unfortunate design decision...) in mcp55. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[email protected]> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
