On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:04:54PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: > > I added the stuff to the list of supported mainboards / northbridges, as > > well as in a news item. Do you have a link to some website which shows > > the specs of the ASUS MEW-VM? I can't seem to find something suitable, > > at least not on the ASUS page. > > No, sorry. What I've found out about this board amounts to this: The > MEW-VM (aka Asus "Hawk") was an OEM-only board, produced for HP and used > in a lot of their P3 and Celeron based machines. It was interchangeable > with the Trigem Cognac, which is the board HP lists on their website for > any machine that could have had either, including the Pavilion 6545C > that my board came from. I haven't been able to locate any info on HP's > site about it either, not even a user manual. The boards are available > on ebay for about $20.
OK, thanks, now we have at least _something_ to link to in the wiki :) > > Also, can you post a detailed report on what works and what doesn't so far? > > And some more info on the board, lspci, lspci -vt, lspci -vvv, lspci -nn, > > lspnp -v, cat /proc/cpuinfo etc.? > Works: > - Serial output > - Ram size detection/setup > - Ram init > - IDE > - Booting memtest payload or loading memtest with FILO > > Doesn't work yet: > - Linux kernel > - Ram buffer strength setup > - VGA > - IRQ tables > > Not tested: > - Keyboard/mouse/parallel/gameport > - USB > - PCI slots > > Attached are two minicom capture files, Nope, I think you forgot the attachments. > one from running without the irq > tables, the other one with them. The irq tables, for some reason, are Can you try to use the 'irqpoll' Linux kernel option? That may be enough to get a complete boot up to the 'login:' prompt. The IRQ tables still need fixing of course, but as a first work-around 'irqpoll' is nice. > completely screwing up elf loader, and I have no idea why, perhaps > they're just that far wrong. Also the rest of the requested info, except > lspnp which isn't available for debian etch (??), at least not in the repos. It's in the pnputils package. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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