[coreboot] Coreboot on AMD Geode; No VGA

[Andrew Bolster]

On 12 July 2011 15:31, Benjamin Henrion <bh at udev.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Andrew Bolster <me at andrewbolster.info>
> wrote:
> >
> > I only started looking into coreboot yesterday, so forgive the
> incoming naivety.
> > Can anyone point me in the direction of how to set up coreboot + seabios
> so that it actually uses the VGA? I've got the system up and running and
> talking to me over the OS's services fine, so all is working except for the
> VGA.
> > I've tried the rational combinations of enabling and disabling the option
> roms, but I assume that I need a vgabios.bin? This board is a PC Engines
> ALIX3D3 (http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm), and I can't seem to find
> any information on how to go about fixing the geode vga output.
>
> This is my experience with it:
>
> http://www.zoobab.com/alix-1c
>
> I still need to find the time to recover the firmware with an PLC
> homemade adaptor (parallel port or arduino based).
>
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I saw your work, but unfortunately by the time I got to your page I had
already sorted out the vsa issues. Fortunately I've been using a
piggy-backed ROM so if/when it all goes kaput I just pull the LPC module.

VGA isn't even a major problem for the product I'm working on, but I really
can't understand how such an otherwise awesome chipset has missed out of VGA
:S

Thanks anyway Benjamin.
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