[LinuxBIOS] EPIA-M VGA BIOS - X gives VIA(0): Bad V-BIOS checksum

Li-Ta Lo ollie at lanl.gov
Mon Feb 27 17:50:09 CET 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 17:45 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> my target: VIA EPIA-M 10000
> 
> Latest linuxbios (rev 2177)
> 
> I extracted the VIA VGA BIOS from the EPIA running official BIOS rev. 1.13.
> 
> However, my X server reports:
> 
> VIA(0): Bad V-BIOS checksum.
> 
> Everything before that looks good. Upon boot, I *do* get VGA output of FILO.
> 
> Would could be the cause? See below for details on what I did.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Leon.
> 

I am not too familiar how VGA BIOS is inited by LB for EPIA. Does
LB copy the VGA BIOS image to 0xC0000 and the emulator does?
 
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Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov>
Los Alamos National Lab





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