is this with ADLO? neat!
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Chiu Gerald wrote: > Wow! I got it! > I use another S3 video card,and succeeded in bringing up the VGA,and booted > RedHat linux. > So wonderful linuxbios is! > Richard Smith,thanks for your help very very much! > > > > >From: Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: LinuxBIOS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: VGA Problem about 440bx chipset > >Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:04:52 -0500 > > > >Chiu Gerald wrote: > > > >>you mean that PCI card works? > > > >Yes some PCI cards work. I've made several Assiliant 65550 and > >69000 > >based PCI cards work and some S3 based cards work. There are > >reports of > >some ATI cards working but I am still having problems getting my ATI > >M1 > >based card to work. > > > >>Now I changed to a PCI video card,and bochs had run the vga > >>bios,but still nothing happened! > > > >>I have no idea what should I do next. > > > >Are you setting up the shadowing correctly? You have to setup the > >shadowing in loader.s or bochs and the video bios never make it into > >ram. The stock ADLO setup won't work on the 440bx. > > > >I've attached my loader.s which sets up the shadowing correctly. > > > >Also the DEBUG_SERIAL option in rombios.c is very useful. You can > >enable it and all the bochs bios messages will be redirected out the > >serial port. This way you can see if bochs rombios is even getting > >called. You have to turn it back off to get text on the VGA screen. > >But your cards VSYNC should happen regardless. (assuming the vbios > >runs > >correctly) > > > >I leave in a few hours and won't be back till Tuesday the 2nd so you > >are > >on your own for a few days. I'll try to check email during that > >time > >but I'm not promising anything. > > > >Search the mailing list for things like "ADLO", "vgabios", etc there > >are > >several threads on getting this up. > > _________________________________________________________________ > �����������ѽ��н�������ʹ�� MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
