have you tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? It has people who works on designing PCI buses as their day to day job.
I think you send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject 'subscribe'. On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Richard Smith wrote: > Bitworks needs help. > > We currently Intel Celeron 440bx design that has ATI M1 video chips on > board. Off and on for the past 6 months or so I've been working to make > them work under Linuxbios, ADLO, or testbios, etc. > > I've have finally managed to show that the problem is hardware related > to our design. As I can make a PCI eval card from ATI work on a Asus > P2B motherboard and linuxbios using X to softboot the card. The same > setup on our board fails to work. > > Somehow the SDRAM inside the M1 chip is failing to initialize properly. > The video output has all the right VSYNC and HSYNC for the 800x600 > mode I setup but a black screen and a large square block for the cursor. > If I exit X and try to write/read a value into video ram I get garbage > back. This works on the Ausu P2B. > > Things with our customer have gone critical. I've got to have something > working by the end of October. > > So I'm in search of people who really understand PCI and video stuff and > are available for consulting either on site here or I can come to thier > site. > > Also any one have on know of place I can go to get a PCI complience test > done? Or hardware I can rent? We reciently borrowed a HP 16500B logic > analyzer with a Future+Systems passive PCI hookup but it dosn't do > complience testing. We need an additional card for that. > > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
