i need some help.

[Mats Leif Moskopp]

hello

i'm sorry about my english - perhaps it is one reason why i did't succed
with the manuals in the internet.
i have a debian system and i can't use some features like the
brightness-fn-keys or the system beep.
so i tried to install a linux bios on my laptop - thats what i'm thinking
flashrom is doing, isn't it? (i tried to understand the targets of
http://linuxbios.org/)

so when i run flashrom i receive the following lines:
*
**africa:/home/mats# flashrom *
*Calibrating delay loop... OK.*
*No coreboot table found.*
*Found chipset "Intel ICH8M", enabling flash write... OK.*
*No EEPROM/flash device found.*
*If you know which flash chip you have, and if this version of flashrom*
*supports a similar flash chip, you can try to force read your chip. Run:*
*flashrom -f -r -c similar_supported_flash_chip filename*

*Note: flashrom can never write when the flash chip isn't found
automatically.*

Whats wrong?

I have an Intel Crestline GM965/GL960+ICH8M Chipset.
Is flashrom the right way for the things, which my BIOS doesn't do at the
moment?
Can you please help me?

Greetings from Berlin
Mats Moskopp

[ron minnich]

I am sorry but neither this laptop nor its chipset are supported.
Coreboot will not work for you.

Thanks

ron

[Myles Watson]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Mats Leif Moskopp
 wrote:
> hello
>
> i'm sorry about my english - perhaps it is one reason why i did't succed
> with the manuals in the internet.
> i have a debian system and i can't use some features like the
> brightness-fn-keys or the system beep.

I think this is an ACPI problem.  You can load a modified DSDT at
boot.  No need to replace the BIOS.  There are very few laptops
supported in coreboot right now because the embedded controllers are
not documented.
> so i tried to install a linux bios on my laptop - thats what i'm thinking
> flashrom is doing, isn't it? (i tried to understand the targets of
> http://linuxbios.org/)

flashrom reads and writes the flash chip that contains your BIOS.
> so when i run flashrom i receive the following lines:
>
> africa:/home/mats# flashrom
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "Intel ICH8M", enabling flash write... OK.
> No EEPROM/flash device found.
> If you know which flash chip you have, and if this version of flashrom
> supports a similar flash chip, you can try to force read your chip. Run:
> flashrom -f -r -c similar_supported_flash_chip filename
>
> Note: flashrom can never write when the flash chip isn't found
> automatically.
>
> Whats wrong?

Your board isn't supported by flashrom yet.
> I have an Intel Crestline GM965/GL960+ICH8M Chipset.
> Is flashrom the right way for the things, which my BIOS doesn't do at the
> moment?
> Can you please help me?

I think it would be easier to get ACPI debugging tools and modify your
DSDT.  This isn't the list for that, but here are a couple of links.

http://www.acpica.org
http://arrrr.com/presario2800.shtml (Custom DSDT section)

Google for more ;)

Thanks,
Myles