[coreboot] vga not working

[Arnaud Maye]

Hello Again,

Just wanted to add that at the time legacy BIOS (AMI ) initializes the 
"Club3D 8500GT", the GFX
card displays the GFX card model on the upper left corner of the screen 
as a text. In the other hand
this text is not displayed when seabios executes the vgabios.

The strange square pattern has a 720x400 resolution, this is what is 
happening as soon the vga console
is turned on.

Then for a few seconds (3-5), the monitor switches to 640x480. At this 
time the screen is black with a
few white points here and there.

Finally the monitor switches back to 720x400 with weird square patterns. 
At this time the pattern are
changing probably in sync with the linux boot.

I hope the additional infos will help.

Thank you

Arnaud

Arnaud Maye wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
>
> So the vgabios came from the manufacturer in fact. I have removed the 
> vgabios from the cbfs and
> indeed seabios seems to execute the vgabios extracted from the card.
>
> I have tried two GFX cards :
> - Matrox G550 pci express 1 lane
> - Club3D 8500GT Silent edition 16 lanes
>
> Both of the cards behaving same besides colors of the squares. As an 
> additional note, seabios does
> boot my Linux from the HDD as there is a lot of activity on the hard 
> disk led. It seems the faulty output
> is displaying something as we can see the output moving in sync with 
> what is supposed to be the linux
> boot.
>
> Attached is the boot log when the 8500GT card is attached. Being 
> unsure about the maximum attachment
> size in the mailing list I've been uploading video of the faulty 
> output there :
>
> http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=z15rwqb3zqc
>
> The G550 output look same as the 8500GT output. The only difference is 
> that most of the grey square are
> black.
>
> Any idea what I could be doing wrong Kevin?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Arnaud
>
>
>
> Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 01:00:52PM +0200, Arnaud Maye wrote:
>>  
>>> I've been on IRC for a GFX output issue on Friday. Actually the
>>> output is always black or full of non sense square on the screen. I
>>> have tried two graphic cards and in this respect it is fair to point
>>> the issue outside of the vgarom.
>>>     
>> [...]
>>  
>>> Scan for VGA option rom
>>> Attempting to init PCI bdf 07:00.0 (dev/ven 42110de)
>>> Searching CBFS for data file pci10de,0421.rom
>>> Found CBFS file fallback/payload
>>> Found CBFS file fallback/coreboot_ram
>>> Found CBFS file pci10de,0421.rom
>>> Copying data 58368 at 0xffe17a98 to 196608 at 0x000c0000
>>> Checking rom 0x000c0000 (sig aa55 size 114)
>>> Running option rom at c000:0003
>>>     
>>
>> How did you obtain the vgabios?  Is this a vga adapter built-in to the
>> motherboard, or one on an external card?
>>
>> For vga adapters on external cards, one should not add the vgabios to
>> CBFS - SeaBIOS can extract the vgabios directly from the card.
>>
>> -Kevin
>>
>>   
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