On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Jonathan Rogers jonathanrrogers@gmail.com wrote:
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I have successfully built coreboot-v2-3119 with a FILO payload and booted my Asus a8v-e_se mainboard with the resulting image. However, VGA is not initialized and I can only interact with it via serial console. The video card is a PNY Nvidia 7900GS PCIe card.
I can boot Linux from my SATA disk normally except a few devices aren't working, most notably the video card. Neither Linux nor the proprietary Nvidia driver see any VGA devices. When I reflash the legacy Award BIOS I copied from the BIOS before installing the coreboot image, everything returns to normal and the VGA card works.
I tried to follow the wiki page http://www.coreboot.org/VGA_support, so I opened src/mainboard/asus/a8v-e_se/Options.lb. However, that file contains the following lines instead of ones starting with "option" as in the wiki:
#VGA default CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=1 default CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN=1
So, I'm not sure what that means. Has the configuration method changed? Do the default lines enable those features? During boot, I see many initialization messages on the serial console from coreboot, but nothing about VGA or PCI_ROM_RUN. The wiki page http://www.coreboot.org/ASUS_A8V-E_SE_Build_Tutorial doesn't have much in the way of instructions, but it does say that PCIe video cards work. Any pointers would be appreciated.
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Can you try reverting to revision 3118 (svn up -r3118)? r3119 made a change to how we detect VGA card presence, which *should* have corrected a very old bug, but might not have. Please send bootlogs (up to elfboot) from both revisions if anything changes, if not just one.
Thanks, Corey