Linuxbios and Via M10000, where to start?

Andrew Ip aip at cwlinux.com
Mon Jul 28 12:58:00 CEST 2003


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

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