Eizo 630L thin client.

[Fco .J. Arias]

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?

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Fco .J. Arias  [050719 12:42]:
> 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?

LinuxBIOS has quite some success with CS5530 based systems. Please have
a look at their mailing list archive at
http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/

Once you have LinuxBIOS working, you can also try to add OpenBIOS on top
of it. We can assist you, if you want to try.

Note: it's quite some work to get video output working on the cs553x
since it uses hardware virtualization (vma) for that..  It's doable
though..

Stefan

[F. J. Arias]

> LinuxBIOS has quite some success with CS5530 based systems. Please have
> a look at their mailing list archive at
> http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/

Well, In www.linuxbios.org motherboard of thin client do not appear. :)

Motherboard is Pinon Corporation pnc-xm geode GX1, 300MHZ
System boots from 1GB compact flash card in slot1. It's no posible
extract the bios for flash it. No hard drives, no floppy, no cd
> Once you have LinuxBIOS working, you can also try to add OpenBIOS on top
> of it. We can assist you, if you want to try.
> Note: it's quite some work to get video output working on the cs553x
> since it uses hardware virtualization (vma) for that..  It's doable
> though..
>
> Stefan

Any previous experience in this chipset, and bios (General Software
bios) ?

Only one opportunity if system crash:
eclient >> trash

Any tool to extract actual bios, simulate or something like this?
test to probe compatibility ?

Actually runs win98 and can boot linux.