On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, John Laur wrote: > 1) The machine has 512MB SDRAM, but LinuxBIOS only sets up 128MB. Is > this a problem with my config file? I know that v1 has some limitations > with memory on this platform. Was there a time when this worked better > on epia-m?
It's a v1 limitation, which is why I want to start V2 next week. > 2) I cannot for the life of me flash the BIOS under Linux. For now, I > have to reboot to a DOS floppy and flash the original BIOS, then reboot > again and flash the LinuxBIOS image (AWFLASH will for some reason not > flash a LinuxBIOS image over a LinuxBIOS image already on the flash > part) I have run 'setpci -s 0:11.0 40.b=54' as described in the docs > and on the mailing list, but flash_rom still detects no flash device. arg. flash_rom should have "just worked". My guess is we need southbridge docs for this thing as it is new hardware. > 3) Despite my sincerest efforts, VGA is doing nothing. I have extracted > the VGA bios from both /proc/kcore as described in the HOWTO and from a > ROM image using CBROM (padded to 64k).. neither of these work. The VGA > bios I'm trying is from the latest release of the BIOS from VIA. let's do one thing at a time ... let's fix the first two things. Do we have chipset docs? > I understand that some people are having success on epia-m/vga using a > checkout from last july and a patch from Dave Ashley.. I may have > mistakenly believed that all that made it into CVS, but if not, what is > the correct checkout date, and where can I find the patch? I have incorporated dave's patches, which is why it ought to work ... ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
