Re: [coreboot] m57sli VGA failure

2008-02-17 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:12:23AM +0100, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > So now I get in the 'initializing devices'-stage: > > rom address for PCI: 07:00.0 = f700 > copying VGA ROM Image from 0xf700 to 0xc, 0xda00 bytes > entering emulator > halt_sys: file /home/ronald/coreboot/src/devices

Re: [coreboot] m57sli VGA failure

2008-02-17 Thread Ronald Hoogenboom
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 23:33 +0100, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > -- During coreboot 'Initializing devices', the following is printed: > > rom address for PCI: 07:00.0 = f700 > Incorrect Expansion ROM Header Signature > I've now discovered that this was due to the fact that I was always do

Re: [coreboot] m57sli VGA failure

2008-02-11 Thread Ronald Hoogenboom
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:29 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > Do you also use the 'noapic' parameter (like suggested in the tutorial)? > > Well, here's the thing. On the PLCC version of the board as of kernel > 2.6.22.1 (stock kernel.org release) I need noapic *only* with the proprietary > bios, no

Re: [coreboot] m57sli VGA failure

2008-02-11 Thread Ward Vandewege
Hi Ronald, On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:29:57PM +0100, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 20:11 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > Uhm - at this point I really want to know what hardware you have. Is this an > > SPI version of the m57sli? I've got several m57sli boards in production > >

Re: [coreboot] m57sli VGA failure

2008-02-11 Thread Ronald Hoogenboom
Hi Ward, On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 20:11 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: > Uhm - at this point I really want to know what hardware you have. Is this an > SPI version of the m57sli? I've got several m57sli boards in production (both > PLCC and SPI versions) that work just fine with coreboot. > I've got

Re: [coreboot] m57sli VGA failure

2008-02-10 Thread Ward Vandewege
Hi Ronald, On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:53:30AM +0100, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > It seems that the IRQ for the SATA controllers isn't set up by coreboot, > so it generates IRQ0, which is the timer tick. Could this be related > with the 'noapic' parameter? If so, how to fix the APIC timer issue? Uh

Re: [coreboot] m57sli VGA failure

2008-02-10 Thread Ronald Hoogenboom
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 14:39 -0800, ron minnich wrote: > Yeah. I am not sure what could be wrong here. Usually this step works just > fine. > > You should try to DISABLE vga in bios, and try to get it to boot at > all, and then work on it from single user mode. That would be my debug > strategy a

Re: [coreboot] m57sli VGA failure

2008-02-09 Thread ron minnich
On Feb 9, 2008 2:33 PM, Ronald Hoogenboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- During coreboot 'Initializing devices', the following is printed: > > rom address for PCI: 07:00.0 = f700 > Incorrect Expansion ROM Header Signature Hmm. that's bad. :-) > > -- The VGA card is on PCI bus 07 accord

[coreboot] m57sli VGA failure

2008-02-09 Thread Ronald Hoogenboom
Hi, I've got the mobo in a state where it finishes the coreboot, elfboot fetches the linux kernel from SPI flash and I can see the 'earlyprintk' messages generated by that kernel on the serial port. The VGA console is not working, though. My VGA is a nvidia 8600GT (10de/0402). Looking at the mes