On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:18:12PM +0100, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote:
Can you try a few different graphics cards? My GeForce 6200 cheapo card works well.
I've been able to borrow a cheapo ATI RV515 [Radeon X1300] and that one indeed works. So what is the story with the Nvidia GeForce 8600GT? Why doesn't the bootrom on the card initialize it properly via the x86 emulator?
Weird. I've got machines running with a few different cheapo Nvidia 7xxx class cards.
Is there /ANYBODY/ who has had some success with an nvidia 8600GT and coreboot? Or are there other VGA cards that have similar problems?
I have not come across any.
Something else I noticed is that the CPU fan speed isn't regulated with coreboot. The K8-temp goes over 90 C and the fan is still reving slow at 800 RPM (nice and quiet, but not so good for my athlons health).
I submitted some code a long time ago (r2620) to set the fans to automatic control on the it8716f superio. That was of course based on a PLCC version of the board. Check src/superio/ite/it8716f/superio.c.
Perhaps there's a bug there - or maybe something has changed on the SOIC version of the m57sli.
Thanks, Ward.