On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, John Laur wrote:
- The machine has 512MB SDRAM, but LinuxBIOS only sets up 128MB. Is
this a problem with my config file? I know that v1 has some limitations with memory on this platform. Was there a time when this worked better on epia-m?
It's a v1 limitation, which is why I want to start V2 next week.
- I cannot for the life of me flash the BIOS under Linux. For now, I
have to reboot to a DOS floppy and flash the original BIOS, then reboot again and flash the LinuxBIOS image (AWFLASH will for some reason not flash a LinuxBIOS image over a LinuxBIOS image already on the flash part) I have run 'setpci -s 0:11.0 40.b=54' as described in the docs and on the mailing list, but flash_rom still detects no flash device.
arg. flash_rom should have "just worked". My guess is we need southbridge docs for this thing as it is new hardware.
- Despite my sincerest efforts, VGA is doing nothing. I have extracted
the VGA bios from both /proc/kcore as described in the HOWTO and from a ROM image using CBROM (padded to 64k).. neither of these work. The VGA bios I'm trying is from the latest release of the BIOS from VIA.
let's do one thing at a time ... let's fix the first two things. Do we have chipset docs?
I understand that some people are having success on epia-m/vga using a checkout from last july and a patch from Dave Ashley.. I may have mistakenly believed that all that made it into CVS, but if not, what is the correct checkout date, and where can I find the patch?
I have incorporated dave's patches, which is why it ought to work ...
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