Sounds good, any HOWTOs you can produce should be an interesting read. If you have any difficulty with AGP, let us know. We've tested the S2885 with a GeForce FX 5600 card with nVidia's driver and Linux AGPGART and have been rather pleased with the results. On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote: > Current status is this: > 1. Boot with linux bios on Tyan MB with 2885 chipset > 2. Linux bios payload is my custom (static ip support) etherboot with > filo > 3. etherboot then remotely retrieves elf image of a 2.6 kernel and > initrd > A. filo with usb does not work for some reason with my setup, it is > something I want/need > 4. Then USB stick is mounted with custom initrd to USB support > 5. Home made 2.6 linux boots up > 6. inside boot.local I have the call to enable Nvidia bios > ./testbios -s 65536 -d 0x200 -t --abseg /dev/mem ./vgabios > 7. Then I have currently xf86config configured to use old nv > driver(#18?) for x windows. > A. I'm in the process now of integrating the new Nvidia driver and > that is my goal. > > Appendix: > A. I can log in via serial console or remotely with (tftp, rlogin, ssh > for debugging) > > > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:50, Hendricks David W. wrote: > > > So what's your current status, anyway? You boot with LinuxBIOS and > > FILO/Etherboot, then log in remotely (Serial or ethernet?) and run the > > testbios, then start X? Are you using framebuffering or anything for > > console support? > > > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote: > > > > > Hi Ron, > > > > > > It is good to give. I think I will, just please don't hold your > > > breath on this. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Dave > > > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:15, ron minnich wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yeah, its works:) > > > > > > > > > > > > GREAT! > > > > > > > > Wanna write a howto and FAQ? > > > > > > > > ron > > > > > > > > > >