VGA option rom code broken?

YhLu YhLu at tyan.com
Wed Feb 9 10:58:01 CET 2005


I just tested five agp cards

works on:
1. Nvidia NV25 GL ( Quadro4 750XGL)
2. ATI Fire GLX1

Fail:
1. Nvidia FX5800 
2. Nvidia FX3000 (Quadro)
3. Nvidia FX1000 (Duadro)

YH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: YhLu 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:50 AM
> To: Li-Ta Lo; Ronald G. Minnich
> Cc: Stefan Reinauer; LinuxBIOS
> Subject: RE: VGA option rom code broken?
> 
> I'm back to office, and I could do some test on that today.
> 
> YH 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie at lanl.gov]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:28 AM
> > To: Ronald G. Minnich
> > Cc: YhLu; Stefan Reinauer; LinuxBIOS
> > Subject: RE: VGA option rom code broken?
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:22, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, YhLu wrote:
> > > 
> > > > But I guess the problem is about Emulator, and Ron is
> > digging that
> > > > on
> > > > S2885 now. With LinuxBIOS (enable VGA and copy that to
> > RAM but don't
> > > > run_BIOS) + test bios.
> > > 
> > > some more detail on this. We have temporarily modified
> > linuxbios to do
> > > everything EXCEPT actually run the emulator. This ensures 
> that the 
> > > routing is right in 18:1 etc. but allows us to defer
> > running the bios
> > > until we can run the user mode testbios.
> > > 
> > > I think that a CMOS setting and/or build time option to 
> enable this 
> > > would be very useful.
> > > 
> > 
> > Is the routing correct? Can you see the vbios image at 0xc0000?
> > 
> > You are using S2885 right?
> > 
> > Ollie
> > 
> > 
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