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