Christer Weinigel christer@weinigel.se writes:
John Allen jallen@integraltech.com writes:
I have successfully built LinuxBIOS to load a kernel from my IDE drive and boot using a serial console. Now I would like to test the VGA funtionality of my board. Has anyone had any experience getting the VGA to turn on and work within LinuxBIOS and/or Linux? John
<cut'n'paste> There is no video support in LinuxBIOS itself, so you won't get any video until you have loaded the NatSemi Geode Linux framebuffer driver (can be found at www.linux4.tv under the heading SP1SC10 Platform Image). </cut'n'paste>
Go fetch the NatSemi driver, that will give you video in Linux.
/Christer (who _definitely_ has to write a FAQ soon)
<confession time>
Ok, I downloaded the linux4.tv driver again and tried it on my SC2200 board and I can't get it to work either. Very strange, since I had it working with LinuxBIOS a couple of months ago. It might be that I had to turn on some clock or PLL by hand.
</confession time>
Oh well, I'll try to see if I can find a backup of the kernel I used then and see if I can get it running again.
/Christer