On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:04:54PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
I added the stuff to the list of supported mainboards / northbridges, as well as in a news item. Do you have a link to some website which shows the specs of the ASUS MEW-VM? I can't seem to find something suitable, at least not on the ASUS page.
No, sorry. What I've found out about this board amounts to this: The MEW-VM (aka Asus "Hawk") was an OEM-only board, produced for HP and used in a lot of their P3 and Celeron based machines. It was interchangeable with the Trigem Cognac, which is the board HP lists on their website for any machine that could have had either, including the Pavilion 6545C that my board came from. I haven't been able to locate any info on HP's site about it either, not even a user manual. The boards are available on ebay for about $20.
OK, thanks, now we have at least _something_ to link to in the wiki :)
Also, can you post a detailed report on what works and what doesn't so far? And some more info on the board, lspci, lspci -vt, lspci -vvv, lspci -nn, lspnp -v, cat /proc/cpuinfo etc.?
Works:
- Serial output
- Ram size detection/setup
- Ram init
- IDE
- Booting memtest payload or loading memtest with FILO
Doesn't work yet:
- Linux kernel
- Ram buffer strength setup
- VGA
- IRQ tables
Not tested:
- Keyboard/mouse/parallel/gameport
- USB
- PCI slots
Attached are two minicom capture files,
Nope, I think you forgot the attachments.
one from running without the irq tables, the other one with them. The irq tables, for some reason, are
Can you try to use the 'irqpoll' Linux kernel option? That may be enough to get a complete boot up to the 'login:' prompt. The IRQ tables still need fixing of course, but as a first work-around 'irqpoll' is nice.
completely screwing up elf loader, and I have no idea why, perhaps they're just that far wrong. Also the rest of the requested info, except lspnp which isn't available for debian etch (??), at least not in the repos.
It's in the pnputils package.
Uwe.