Hallo,
has somebody managed to get an Pentium-M based motherboard to run already?
The motherboard is an ibase MB890 mini-itx one with the following chips:
82555GME (GMCH) (with DVI out if that makes anything harder than with CRT?) 82552GM (MCH) 82801DB (ICH4) 82801DBM (ICH4-M) DDR DIMMs Winbond W83627HF
cpu-socket is FCBGA 478 Pentium-M (Dothan) 1.6 GHz
More information required?
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Somewhere i read, that hot-swapping the Bios-chip is not recommended, instead a tiny "dual-socket" extension-board is plugged into the MoBo's Bios-socket (PLCC?) which has a jumper on it to enable one or the other chip of the two. Where can i get one?
Where to find the correct pin-compatible DOC for use with linuxbios (if required), alternatives?
BTW, the article/document on the linuxbios-homepage only mentions 32pin DIP ZIF sockets variants, does it work for others at all ?-)
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Are there some current reliable numbers on what booting speed can be achieved using linuxbios (which is critical for my application) ?- the "rumour" numbers vary from 3 seconds to 20 seconds for same hardware ...
Guido
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 gfiala@s.netic.de wrote:
The motherboard is an ibase MB890 mini-itx one with the following chips:
no, intel has no desire to help with linuxbios and we are hung up on chipset init.
ron
On Friday 18 February 2005 15:13, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 gfiala@s.netic.de wrote:
The motherboard is an ibase MB890 mini-itx one with the following chips:
no, intel has no desire to help with linuxbios and we are hung up on chipset init.
Sigh - always the same... At least the south-bridge documentation is available i gather (link somewhere in this ml archive), so its the north-bridge ??
regarding AMD, PPC:
If one considers things as power-per-watt and a certain set of needed features (firewire, usb, network, total power consumption, noise ...) only a few mainboards remain, there was no AMD or PPC that fit my needs, also VIA is far to slow for my purposes ( a "linux media center" based on vdr plus my daily workstation).
Guido Fiala wrote:
If one considers things as power-per-watt and a certain set of needed features (firewire, usb, network, total power consumption, noise ...) only a few mainboards remain, there was no AMD or PPC that fit my needs, also VIA is far to slow for my purposes ( a "linux media center" based on vdr plus my daily workstation).
you should be using the PVR versions of the capture cards... onboard compression only requires fast disk access..
/me runs his DVR on an epia...
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 gfiala@s.netic.de wrote:
The motherboard is an ibase MB890 mini-itx one with the following chips:
you might want to consider using an AMD or PPC based system, as IBM and AMd are helpful with linuxbios.
ron
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