Hi
I've used linuxbios for about a month now, and now i even have it on two devices. But i've discovered some problems:
On the epia-ml i can't whatsoever figure how to get the vga bios working, but this is not of importance to me, just a little annoying. i've tried extracting with awardeco and inserting via dd, i've also tried the old .BIN which a mail in the archive referred to.
On my epia-ml everything seems to work except the vgabios and /dev/ttyS1 the internal rs232 port.
It(ttyS1) works flawlessly on stock bios, and kernel recognizes it on bootup (checked via dmesg) exactly identically on both stock and linuxbios, since my epia doesnt like usb hubs, and i've ran out of usb ports i'd like to get the seconds rs232 port working within linuxbios, and hints/tips are welcome.
Thanks in advance, Have a nice weekend
Kurt.
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:59:35PM +0000, Kurt André Selbach wrote:
On my epia-ml everything seems to work except the vgabios and /dev/ttyS1 the internal rs232 port.
It(ttyS1) works flawlessly on stock bios,
Did you test that using minicom with 115200 Baud, 8N1?
and kernel recognizes it on bootup (checked via dmesg) exactly identically on both stock and linuxbios, since my epia doesnt like usb hubs, and i've ran out of usb ports i'd like to get the seconds rs232 port working within linuxbios, and hints/tips are welcome.
I'm just guessing, but try to look at src/mainboard/via/epia-m/*.lb and src/superio/via/vt1211/vt1211.c. Either LinuxBIOS is simply not configured to enable ttyS1, or the code isn't there or incomplete or wrong (?)
Maybe it's even simpler? Did you attach the cable to the correct port? Did you configure minicom to use ttyS1 instead of ttyS0? Etc. etc.
Uwe.
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Uwe Hermann