Linuxbios and Via M10000, where to start?

[Barbini Uberto]

Hi, I'm sorry for the quite trivial question, but I cannot be able to found
it by myself.

I have a via M10000 motherboard and I'm using it with gentoo with kernel
2.6.0.test1 and xfree86 latest snap, and acpid for clean poweroff by power
button.
All works fine, and I'm quite an happy user.
I'm wondering if I happiness can grow still more using linuxbios to cut off
booting time. ;)
But is there any risk I cannot be able to run the above software? (first
question)

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do, after downloading freebios, but I'm
unsure of its function too. In the donwload page of linuxbios.org there is a
link to "other software", I have to download that too?

I'll be grateful for any hints and I apologize if this is not the right
place to ask for it.

Bye

Uberto Barbini

[Andrew Ip]

Hi Barbini,
> I have a via M10000 motherboard and I'm using it with gentoo with kernel
> 2.6.0.test1 and xfree86 latest snap, and acpid for clean poweroff by power
> button.
> All works fine, and I'm quite an happy user.
> I'm wondering if I happiness can grow still more using linuxbios to cut off
> booting time. ;)
> But is there any risk I cannot be able to run the above software? (first
> question)

For EPIA-M10000, I have only tested with no vga and no power managment.
I think Dave has got the X working at some point.
> I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do, after downloading freebios, but I'm
> unsure of its function too. In the donwload page of linuxbios.org there is a
> link to "other software", I have to download that too?

You can follow the HOWTO for EPIA to get started.

-Andrew