On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:09:56PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:03:21PM -0400, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:21:13 +0000, "Jonathan A. Kollasch" jakllsch@kollasch.net wrote:
Fix various issues on MSI MS7135 board.
- enable floppy drive controller so that some legacy VGA ROMs will work
Little confused by this. Why does the floppy drive controller have to be enabled for VGA??
I think this might be a 'feature' of the proprietary VGA ROM... Who knows why - there's no source...
Yeah, I found that a RV370 board I have was working when the superio address was wrong, because the floppy controller was in the power-on-reset state of enabled. When I corrected the superio address, and the FDC got disabled as instructed, the VGA BIOS did weird things I don't exactly recall and didn't work. I then tried enabling the FDC again and found that this made the VGA BIOS work again. I have no idea why it wants to touch the floppy controller, but I have to let it or it won't work.
Jonathan Kollasch