EPIA-800 and VGA post LinuxBIOS init

SONE Takeshi ts1 at cma.co.jp
Wed Sep 17 03:06:01 CEST 2003


On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:37:07PM -0700, David Hendricks wrote:
> I have successfully managed to boot an EPIA-800 board to a usable state
> using Steve Gehlback's VGA configuration, Etherboot, and a vanilla
> FreeBIOS tree. VGA comes up reliably every time I boot. However VGA output
> only appears until Etherboot jumps to my phase 1 beoboot image.
> 
> What must be done to have VGA output after Etherboot loads my image?

It's working for me, VGA is up all the way 
LinuxBIOS + SG patch --> FILO --> Linux.

However, framebuffer (epiafb) doesn't work well, and TV-out
doesn't work either even if it is re-programmed by tvtool or tvout.

--
Takeshi



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