Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error
Hendricks David W.
dwh at lanl.gov
Thu Jul 15 14:47:00 CEST 2004
Sounds good, any HOWTOs you can produce should be an interesting read.
If you have any difficulty with AGP, let us know. We've tested the S2885
with a GeForce FX 5600 card with nVidia's driver and Linux AGPGART and
have been rather pleased with the results.
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:
> Current status is this:
> 1. Boot with linux bios on Tyan MB with 2885 chipset
> 2. Linux bios payload is my custom (static ip support) etherboot with
> filo
> 3. etherboot then remotely retrieves elf image of a 2.6 kernel and
> initrd
> A. filo with usb does not work for some reason with my setup, it is
> something I want/need
> 4. Then USB stick is mounted with custom initrd to USB support
> 5. Home made 2.6 linux boots up
> 6. inside boot.local I have the call to enable Nvidia bios
> ./testbios -s 65536 -d 0x200 -t --abseg /dev/mem ./vgabios
> 7. Then I have currently xf86config configured to use old nv
> driver(#18?) for x windows.
> A. I'm in the process now of integrating the new Nvidia driver and
> that is my goal.
>
> Appendix:
> A. I can log in via serial console or remotely with (tftp, rlogin, ssh
> for debugging)
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:50, Hendricks David W. wrote:
>
> > So what's your current status, anyway? You boot with LinuxBIOS and
> > FILO/Etherboot, then log in remotely (Serial or ethernet?) and run the
> > testbios, then start X? Are you using framebuffering or anything for
> > console support?
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Ron,
> > >
> > > It is good to give. I think I will, just please don't hold your
> > > breath on this.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave
> > > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:15, ron minnich wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Yeah, its works:)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > GREAT!
> > > >
> > > > Wanna write a howto and FAQ?
> > > >
> > > > ron
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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