Re: [Fwd: your mail] --- Postcard Question

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ollie Lho wrote:

> You are doing something worng building/burning LinuxBIOS. There is no
> activity on PCI bus at all.


Ollie, there is one other possibility. The SMBUS could be broken. For
example, the ASUS CUA (Acer TNT2) has a totally non-working SMBUS, so
SMBUS code on that mainboard does not work right.

I am wondering if pradeep's card has a similarly broken SMBUS, so that
DRAM configure is failing. Or it is also possible that pradeep's SDRAM is
one of the models that has incorrect information in the EEPROM.

I know that many BIOSes do not use SMBUS as it is so screwed up on so many
mainboards and SDRAM modules. 

pradeep, you may need to write a user-level SMBUS program to confirm that
SMBUS actually works on your mainboard.

ron