[LinuxBIOS] Epia-M Status

[Martin Ley]

tristan schrieb:

>which motherboard/processor do you have exactly? mine is M10000 /
>Nehemiah 1GHz VIA stepping 5.
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Epia M10000

vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
cpu family      : 6
model           : 9
model name      : VIA Nehemiah
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 999.609

>>The VGA Bios has to be extracted like Jun said:
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>> > # dd if=/dev/mem of=video.bios.bin.4 bs=1 count=65536 skip=786432
>> > 786432 is 0xc0000, and 790528 which Nich told is 0xc1000.
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>So, wich one using? 786432 or 790528?
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the extraction of the video BIOS with

#dd if=/dev/mem of=video.bios.bin.4 bs=1 count=65536 skip=786432

is the correct one.

>>I haven't tried X yet.
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>Oh yes please tell us, thx!
>Please also complete wiki for this motherboard ;-)
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Just ran X.org (Debian 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10) with the via drivers at 800x600 
and it looks good but I haven't done any performance testing or higher 
resolutions. The vga and the vesa driver did not work at all.


Martin