Am Mon, 12 May 2008 22:38:45 -0700 schrieb Philip Loewen philip@tidepool.ca:
Thanks for your replies. It's exciting to have my questions received so well.
I'm not quite allergic to opening the case of my unit, but I should be totally honest about my plan to be a 'consumer' rather than a 'producer' of coreboot knowledge. Investing time and money in hardware to program the flash ROM and to detect small steps toward success would take me off-line from other projects (like earning a living) that I can't afford to quit.
My little Evo has a socket for additional flash memory, but the socket is empty and that's OK with me:
I am using the T20 as a thin client for several hours each day, with gentoo linux kernel 2.6.24. I get X graphics at 1280x1024@16bpp, the maximum supported by the GX1, by using a patched version of GRUB that lies to the kernel about what memory should be used where. This patch, kindly supplied by others, sacrifices the framebuffer console displays, though. (All of them!) I am hoping that coreboot might get me everything: best-possible video, hi-res framebuffer, and efficient [non-emulated] sound support. (Then I would drop X and go with directfb for VNC.) Success stories and documentation are on the wiki at http://open-evot20.sourceforge.net/wiki/
Thanks again, ... Philip
Yes Juergen Beisert works an the Sound of the GX1. It works for my. He says it's not perfect but you have sound. I uses an Evo T30. On this the flashrom works.
Greeding Markus