On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 11:58, Richard Smith wrote: > Li-Ta Lo wrote: > > >>>Did they do anything on the "core" x86emu? Last time I checked, > >>>XF86 4.4.0 has almost the same x86emu as testbios. > >> > >>Something is differnt even with 4.3. I can run my ATI M1 bios under > >>testbios and it dosen't work but X with InitPrimary enabled works. > >> > > Interesting. Do you have any idea why ? > > > > Not really. There's lots of variables. I do have machines that > testbios does work with my M1 bios. But these machines boot a COTS bios > rather than LB. > > For one thing I think the emu in X handles the reads and writes to the > timer rather than letting the bios get to the hardware. The stock M1 > bios won't run under vgabios at all. The delay functions go into loops > that only exit by chance. The X emu will run that code fine. > > I have a modified version of the M1 bios that works around the delay > issue by effectively removing them so it runs under testbios but it > still dosen't bring the card to life. Its possible that my "fix" is > part of the problem since timeing can be critical but I wouldn't expect > the emulator to running too fast and I don't think too slow would be a > problem. >
So you still think it is the timer ? Did you try to access the timer HW in testbios ? Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
