On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 02:25:21PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060505 23:19]: > > > I can shut the machine down, do a cold boot into LinuxBIOS, and it still > > > works. > > > > > > Until I unplug the power to the machine, that is. > > > > > > After that, I can still read out everything (see attached > > > set_fan_speed_bad.txt) correctly, but now also _set_ the fan speed. > > > > I'm sorry this is confusing. After unplugging and replugging the power to > > the > > machine, I need to boot the proprietary BIOS once to be able to set the fan > > speed on any consecutive (cold) boot. > > Can you do an lspci -xxx on the machine while running LinuxBIOS after a > cold boot > > a) without factory bios running once before > b) with factory bios running once before > > and diff them to see if there's something we can easily do. (ie. in the > "ACPI bridge" device?)
OK; I've attached the two files. Only three bytes are different in the ACPI bridge (in this comparison the first file is after proprietary boot, the second without). 0000:01:04.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05) 00: 22 10 6b 74 00 00 80 02 05 00 80 06 00 40 00 00 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 10 81 28 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40: 80 f1 00 07 00 00 00 00 20 14 50 00 00 00 00 00 50: 00 80 00 00 0f 00 00 00 01 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 60: 00 00 80 06 13 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 10 81 28 80: 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 -f0: 19 5f 3b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 +f0: c3 ad 1e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 But there are actually quite a few other differences throughout the file, which surprises me a litte. Lots of differences in the various northbridge entries, and even the network cards and the sata controller. Is this normal? Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
