On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Peter Stuge wrote:
I would've suggested a modified POST card or logic analyzer to see if the writes made it to the bus. This is somewhat more of a LAN approach to diagnostics, but might have helped anyway. LAN bridges also tend to just make packets disappear mysteriously.
I finally found my VMETRO and put it in the slot and we were able to work it all out.
What was the problem, anyway?
- incorrect setting of the pci i/o registers in the k8 northbridge (fix in the works) - the stupid vga cards don't respond to I/O in the legacy range until you do a Magic Write to a Magic Place with Magic Data. The emulator helped us figure this out since we can watch I/O
But we're really a lot closer than we ever have been.
ron