Questions on BX Chipset

[Meinrad Sauter]

Hi,

after a short period of pain, I finally made LinuxBIOS running on my machine 
(Siemens Fujitsu Multitainer / i440BX Chipset). I use this device as a 
digital video recorder running (of course) Linux and Klaus Schmidingers 
famous VDR. 
Unfortunately there are some features I couldn't get to work until now, 
probably you can give me some hints:
- Soft Power-Off: I used the APM-BIOS in my Original Setup for this. I 
understand that LinuxBIOS doesn't implement such BIOS functions. I also found 
a kernel patch that implements this feature for SIS-Chipsets. Is there a 
possibility to get that thin running on a BX board?
- HD-Spindown: Same as above, simply doesnt work with my current LinuxBIOS 
setup
- VGA: The Multitainer has an onboard MPACT2 Graphics adapter. It would be 
nice to have, but not really required. From the docs, I think I could make it 
work using ADLO or with the builtin VGA support. What do you think?
- Wake on RTC: Not even the original BIOS supported this. Anyway I don't think 
its a hardware limitation. Do you think it is possible to implement this for 
LinuxBIOS?

Thanks for your answers and keep up the good work!

Meinrad
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Meinrad Sauter
email: meinrad.sauter at gmx.de