Re: Dell Media Direct button

2008-08-21 Thread Per Öberg
Javier Martín wrote: 2008/8/20 Colin D Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:12:59 +0200 Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Per Öberg wrote: Hi Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to boot a special

Re: Dell Media Direct button

2008-08-21 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Per Öberg wrote: Hi Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to boot a special embedded OS for media only instead of the ordinary OS. For my Dell XPS1330M I can determine if the Media button was

Re: Dell Media Direct button

2008-08-21 Thread Javier Martín
2008/8/21 Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Per Öberg wrote: Hi Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to boot a special embedded OS for media only instead of the ordinary OS. For my Dell XPS1330M I

Re: EFI report w/ linux 2.6.26.2

2008-08-21 Thread Isaac Dupree
Bean wrote: Hi, Please take a look at the wiki page and see if you can make graphic work by following the instructions: http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook sorry I feel a little busy right now, and I'd have to figure out how to kick those agp modules out of the initrd too. By the way,

Re: [PATCH] fix for a memleak in grub_ntfs_mount

2008-08-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:01:26PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: 2008-08-20 Felix Zielcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] * fs/ntfs.c (grub_ntfs_mount): Fix a memory leak. Index: fs/ntfs.c === --- fs/ntfs.c (Revision 1822) +++

Re: [PATCH] Generic 32-bit Linux loader (for coreboot)

2008-08-21 Thread Robert Millan
Committed. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. ___

Re: Dell Media Direct button

2008-08-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:13:05PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: The sequence of writing to port 0x70 / reading from port 0x71 reflects reading from the computer's cmos nvram memory. bit 7 of 0x70 is reserved for disabling NMIs, so the actual information is stored in byte 0x79[8] in the

[PATCH] Bug fix for EFI

2008-08-21 Thread Bean
Hi, This patch fix two bugs in the EFI port: 1, grub_longjmp (x86_64 EFI): Return 1 when val = 0. This behavior is consistent with grub_longjmp of i386 platform. 2, genfslist.sh and genpartmaplist.sh In EFI, the kernel is in a module kernel.mod. genfslist.sh scans the source for

[Fwd: Bug#495949: grub-common: grub-probe segfaults]

2008-08-21 Thread Felix Zielcke
The report is on http://bugs.debian.org/495949 There seems to be some LVM/RAID related memory corruption somewhere. On the report there's a backtrace, full backtrace and core file + grub-probe binary attached. This doestn't make any sense to me, so I hope some of you else has one. On Debian BTS

[Wishlist] Better warning if grub.cfg not found

2008-08-21 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hello, Doing some tests with Grub2 and qemu I've made a mistake that Grub (I think) could warn me better. The mistake is that I didn't have a grub.cfg file (well, I had but in the wrong place). The Grub2 feedback for a standard user it's just flickering (I think that Grub2 paints the menu)