VGA BIOS on EPIA 800

[Michel Belleau]

Hi everyone,

I checked everywhere but I can't seem to find any real information about this..

The current status of LinuxBIOS on the EPIA 800 seems to lack vga output (only 
serial)? On some other site, I found out that it could work but I should 
extract the VGABIOS out of the current BIOS and inject it somewhere on the 
flash (?!). How can I extract the current vga bios on my epia800?

I don't have my millenium chip and its adapter yet, but I'm gathering 
informations right now, just to know what to do once I receive them.

Thanks a lot to everyone.

[Jeff Noxon]

The EPIA HOWTO has instructions on how to extract the BIOS, enable VGA
support, etc.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:11:39AM -0400, Michel Belleau wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I checked everywhere but I can't seem to find any real information about this..
>
> The current status of LinuxBIOS on the EPIA 800 seems to lack vga output (only 
> serial)? On some other site, I found out that it could work but I should 
> extract the VGABIOS out of the current BIOS and inject it somewhere on the 
> flash (?!). How can I extract the current vga bios on my epia800?
>
> I don't have my millenium chip and its adapter yet, but I'm gathering 
> informations right now, just to know what to do once I receive them.
>
> Thanks a lot to everyone.

[Michel Belleau]

Selon Jeff Noxon :
> The EPIA HOWTO has instructions on how to extract the BIOS, enable VGA
> support, etc.

That's the answer I read everywhere.. But where is the EPIA HOWTO located on 
the web?

[Jeff Noxon]

It's not on the web.  It's in CVS under HOWTO/EPIA.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:25:59PM -0400, Michel Belleau wrote:
> > The EPIA HOWTO has instructions on how to extract the BIOS, enable VGA
> > support, etc.
>
> That's the answer I read everywhere.. But where is the EPIA HOWTO located on 
> the web?

[Michel Belleau]

Selon Jeff Noxon :
> It's not on the web.  It's in CVS under HOWTO/EPIA.

Hehehe.. That's why I haven't found it yet! Thanks a lot!

[Steve Gehlbach]

Michel Belleau wrote:
> The current status of LinuxBIOS on the EPIA 800 seems to lack vga output (only 
> serial)?

This is true AFAIK; I tried a few times to find the handles to enable 
legacy VGA on this board and came up without success.

As I said, if I could just get a little more time to work on it...

The hard thing about VGA is that you can be 100 register settings off, 
or 1 bit in one register off, and the result is the same, a black screen.

I don't know about the VGABIOS, maybe others can help on that.

-Steve