[LinuxBIOS] Success report on VIA EPIA-M10000
Leon Woestenberg
leonw at mailcan.com
Sat Feb 25 14:30:17 CET 2006
Hello Ron,
first my *unchanged* 2177 already worked in the console, but did make it
into X; it reported:
VIA(0): Bad V-BIOS checksum.
Chris Suehs then responded to me off-list (Thanks Chris!):
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I have had the same problem for the via X driver.
There is a failure in the LinuxBios Code for newer Epia M
The vga bios section is not write protected, because the protection
failt for a false Device ID
You should try to change the code to the right ID in mainboard.c for the
Epia to 3122 in the write_protect_vgabios function
regards chris
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So I tried again with 2184 and this single change and it worked; I get
into my X server without a hiss now.
ron minnich wrote:
> This is intriguing.
>
>
> - dev = dev_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID
> _VIA, 0x3123, 0);
> + dev = dev_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, 0x3122, 0);
>
> I think what this means is that we need a new mainboard directory. can
> you give me more info about the exact mainboard.
>
> Another option, is to do something like tihs:
> dev = dev_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, 0x3123, 0);
> if (! dev)
> dev = dev_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, 0x3122, 0);
>
> or some such. But if you could tell us the exact vendor etc. that
> would be good to know.
Ron, what exactly do you want to know further than this?
VIA EPIA-M10000, PCB revision.B
I could output lspci -vv or so if that helps?
Regards,
Leon Woestenberg.
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