OpenBIOS August 2005

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Eizo 630L thin client.
by Fco .J. Arias 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hello, I modified this thin client to run win98 or linux, it becomes with windows ce. But bios General software bios is very bad for PNP, and usb, cs5530 udma, sound,acpi, .., don't work. At the moment xpress vga, serial, parallel, rs232, lan and other components works ok. Can I flash bios of this thinclient (now a useful simple computer, very quiet) with OPENBIOS? Extract actual bios before? -- Fco .J. Arias <javi(a)productshome.com>

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newbie
by Douglas Frank 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Greetings all, I've just subscribed. I've been googling around for quite a while now, looking for an interesting project that isn't already almost done, and that isn't essentially closed to significant contributions from people outside whatever organization sponsors the project. That leaves out a lot of otherwise interesting projects-- such as the kernel trace work at opersys.com, or Fedora, or the crash-dump project (lkcd) just for a few examples. I confess I'm not just interested in "open source" for any altruistic reason-- I'm really looking for a way to establish credentials in the OS "community" (a much-overused word). I bet such be will be increasingly important in future years. A little context: I'm using Fedora (FC3) here at work (nobody seems to mind that I can't read half of HP's internal web pages, which mostly only work right with IE; and I *certainly* don't mind! :-) I naturally poked around Redhat's site looking for Fedora work, but all they really offer is a bugzilla listing. 98% of reported FC bugs are either with badly outdated releases, or expansion hardware I don't have. However there *does* seem to be an issue with FC3 and the 2.6.11 kernel-- with several reports of solid system hangs/lockups, where the computer essentially freezes in place. Now on an Alpha, all you'd have to do is hit the halt button, type "cra" at the ">>>" prompt, and reboot; once in multiuser you'll have a crash dump waiting for your debugging pleasure. But I've never seen the PC that had a halt button that didn't instantly put you in POST, which kinda limits the chances of copying memory to the swap partition. So at least on the PC architecture, there doesn't seem to be a reliable way to do a postmortem on a wedged kernel. Obviously, the BIOS is a problem. Which leads me to you. What needs doing? thanks! -- Douglas Frank HP Co. ZKO 110 Spit Brook Rd. The older I get, 603-884-0501 Nashua, NH USA 03062 the better I was.

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