Hello Ron, first my *unchanged* 2177 already worked in the console, but did make it into X; it reported:
VIA(0): Bad V-BIOS checksum. Chris Suehs then responded to me off-list (Thanks Chris!): --- I have had the same problem for the via X driver. There is a failure in the LinuxBios Code for newer Epia M The vga bios section is not write protected, because the protection failt for a false Device ID You should try to change the code to the right ID in mainboard.c for the Epia to 3122 in the write_protect_vgabios function regards chris --- So I tried again with 2184 and this single change and it worked; I get into my X server without a hiss now. ron minnich wrote: > This is intriguing. > > > - dev = dev_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID > _VIA, 0x3123, 0); > + dev = dev_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, 0x3122, 0); > > I think what this means is that we need a new mainboard directory. can > you give me more info about the exact mainboard. > > Another option, is to do something like tihs: > dev = dev_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, 0x3123, 0); > if (! dev) > dev = dev_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, 0x3122, 0); > > or some such. But if you could tell us the exact vendor etc. that > would be good to know. Ron, what exactly do you want to know further than this? VIA EPIA-M10000, PCB revision.B I could output lspci -vv or so if that helps? Regards, Leon Woestenberg. -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
