Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 22:18:59 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Presuming that it's the ROM driver, I get this in the dmesg I posted: pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum That's likely the problem.

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 22:18:59 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Presuming that it's the ROM driver, I get

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 21:42:35 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 22:18:59 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Sure. The data at offset 0xc are: : : C000: 55 AA 78 E9 44 06 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 U.x.D... : : The 0xaa55 is the BIOS signature (Here be a BIOS), and the 0x78 is : the length

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:03:57 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure. The data at offset 0xc are: C000: 55 AA 78 E9 44 06 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 U.x.D... The 0xaa55 is the

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
Where are you getting the data? A windows tool? Warner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:11:29 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: Where are you getting the data? A windows tool? If you're talking about the BIOS contents I'm printing, yes, I'm using a Microsoft tool called DEBUG (which has been around since before Microsoft bought DOS :-). Greg -- See

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:11:29 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : Where are you getting the data? A windows tool? : : If you're talking about the BIOS contents I'm printing, yes, I'm using : a Microsoft

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:17:32 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:11:29 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: Where are you getting the data? A windows tool? If you're talking about

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:17:32 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:11:29 -0600, M.

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:32:42 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:17:32 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:32:42 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 22:17:32 -0600, M.

Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I've spent the last couple of days tracking down a problem starting X on a Dell Inspiron 5100. I've got as far as discovering that the video BIOS is not being completely mapped: it's 60 kB long, but only 48 kB are being mapped into memory. To make matters worse, the machine doesn't have a serial

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-26 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:32:17PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Can anybody point me in the right direction? Where should I be looking for this? Is this memory mapped permanently, or is it only during X startup? The video BIOS is usually mapped by system BIOS into real memory to begin

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 9:41:14 +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:32:17PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Can anybody point me in the right direction? Where should I be looking for this? Is this memory mapped permanently, or is it only during X startup? The

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-26 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : machine doesn't have a serial port, so I can't apply a kernel debugger : to find out what's going on. Does it have a firewire port? Warner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 11:27:06 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: machine doesn't have a serial port, so I can't apply a kernel debugger to find out what's going on. Does it have a firewire port? Yes.

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-26 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 11:27:06 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : machine doesn't have a serial port, so I

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 18:44:43 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 11:27:06 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-26 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 18:44:43 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 11:27:06 -0600,

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 19:47:50 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 18:44:43 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL

Re: Mapping Video BIOS?

2003-07-26 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Presuming that it's the ROM driver, I get this in the dmesg I posted: : pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum That's likely the problem. However, PnP BIOS information isn't the same thing that the orm[sic]