[LinuxBIOS] vga bios troubles

Luis Correia luis.f.correia at gmail.com
Thu Dec 7 16:33:18 CET 2006


Hi!

On 12/7/06, Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne at gmail.com> wrote:
> I followed the guide at this site http://linuxbios.org/VGA_support to
> get my onboard video to work. I have yet to be successful.
>
> I am a little confused about the Config.lb section. This is what the guid says:
>
> device pci 9.0 on  # PCI
>         chip drivers/pci/onboard
>                 device pci 9.0 on end
>                 register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000" #512k image
>         end
> end
>
> I don't get why you list the "device pci 9.0" twice. I tried that and
> when I did my vga device never got the driver from onboard.c, instead
> it would always get the generic pci driver. So I changed it to only
> include the device below the chip line. This is what my Config.lb
> looks like
>
> chip northbridge/intel/i855gm
>         chip cpu/intel/socket_mPGA479M
>                 device apic 0 on end
>         end
>         device pci_domain 0 on
>                 device pci 0.0 on end # host bridge
>                 device pci 0.1 on end # memory configuration
>                 device pci 0.3 on end # process configuration
>                 device pci 1.0 on end
>
>                 chip drivers/pci/onboard
>                         device pci 2.0 on end # vga controller
>                         register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000" #512k image
>                 end
>
>                 chip southbridge/intel/i82801dbm
>                         chip superio/ite/it8712f end
>                 end
>         end
> end
>
> One thing that is also strange is that when I run "lspci" in a working
> environment I see two vga devices one at 0:2.0 and one at 0:2.1, I
> tried listing both but LB complained that I had a leftover static
> device at 0:2.1, it appears that only one of these devices is visible
> at boot.

Maybe it is the second head that is visible from PCI but
un-implemented by hardware.


>
> So I continued with the code above, and in the debug output I can see
> where linuxbios attempts to run the proprietary vga bios. I see:
>
> PCI: 00:02.0 init
> rom address for PCI: 00:02.0 = fff80000
> PCI Expansion ROM, signature 0xaa55, INIT size 0xc800, data ptr 0x0040
> PCI ROM Image, Vendor 8086, Device 3582,
> PCI ROM Image,  Class Code 030000, Code Type 00
> copying VGA ROM Image from 0xfff80000 to 0xc0000, 0xc800 bytes
> entering emulator
>
> Now, 0xC0000 is controlled by my PAM registers, so I took my best
> guess and set it read/write to SDRAM. When I do this LB stays inside
> the emulator for a while and eventually kicks out with this message:
>
> halt_sys: file /root/LinuxBIOSv2/src/devices/emulator/x86emu/ops.c, line 4387
>
> I never see anything on my monitor. I looked at the ops.c file but
> couldn't figure out what was going on. I have been fooling around with
> this for quite some time, changing every little thing I can think of,
> but no luck.
>
> My northbridge is an Intel 855 gme, I used the perl script to extract
> the vga bios which is 50KiB, I subtracted that size from the ROM_SIZE,
> and I concatenated it with the linuxBIOS.
>
> Anyone have an idea how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon

Luis




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