Hello all guys here.
Finally, the very foolish guy in Tokyo has succeeded to run LX2 on my EPIA M/B. Thank you all. Thanks for all helps. Thank you!!!.
But, of course, there are problems and questions.
--------------- first, the biggest issue is, DIMMs are really picky. The M/B is natively picky, I mean, even with Award BIOS, it is picky. but the problem is much more serious with LX2. I tested with two EPIA M/B and 5 DIMMs which all are confirmed to work well with Award BIOS. And the result is too much great. Only one combination worked in these 10 combinations. Guys, can you help?
I think that one solution is hard coding the params of mem in a BIOS image. But, how?
-------------- The second issue is, booting time. It is very fast before a kernel loaded, but after this, there are three glitches. I know at least two of them are not LX2 issue, but I hope any advice.
1. Just after "Jumping to entry point...". Probably this waiting is caused by "Uncompressing Linux kernel", but it is much slower than normal booting. Takes about 2 sec.
2. "Console: colour dummy device 80x25 <---- here. Memory: 128128k/131072k available" This comes from memory checking? It takes about 1 sec.
3. IDE recognizing. I added "ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=noprobe", but it takes about 2 secs.
--------------- The third issue is, VGA. I read the FreeVGA paper. Yes, it seems great. But such complicated technology is really necessary? For example, this guy succeeded to use normal VGA bios, although I failed. http://www.carbotpc.com/linux/index.html Or, just using Xfree86 driver doesnt work?
--- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.