VGA Problem about 440bx chipset

[Chiu Gerald]

right.

linuxbios+ADLO+Bochs

>From: Adam Sulmicki <adam at cfar.umd.edu>
>To: Chiu Gerald <snow2moutain at hotmail.com>
>CC: rsmith at bitworks.com, <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
>Subject: Re: VGA Problem about 440bx chipset
>Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 10:54:45 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>is this with ADLO?
>
>neat!
>
>On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Chiu Gerald wrote:
>
> > Wow! I got it!
> > I use another S3 video card,and succeeded in bringing up the VGA,and 
booted
> > RedHat linux.
> > So wonderful linuxbios is!
> > Richard Smith,thanks for your help very very much!
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Richard Smith <rsmith at bitworks.com>
> > >To: LinuxBIOS <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
> > >Subject: Re: VGA Problem about 440bx chipset
> > >Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:04:52 -0500
> > >
> > >Chiu Gerald wrote:
> > >
> > >>you mean that PCI card works?
> > >
> > >Yes some PCI cards work.  I've made several Assiliant 65550 and
> > >69000
> > >based PCI cards work and some S3 based cards work.  There are
> > >reports of
> > >some ATI cards working but I am still having problems getting my ATI
> > >M1
> > >based card to work.
> > >
> > >>Now I changed to a PCI video card,and bochs had run the vga
> > >>bios,but still nothing happened!
> > >
> > >>I have no idea what should I do next.
> > >
> > >Are you setting up the shadowing correctly?  You have to setup the
> > >shadowing in loader.s or bochs and the video bios never make it into
> > >ram.  The stock ADLO setup won't work on the 440bx.
> > >
> > >I've attached my loader.s which sets up the shadowing correctly.
> > >
> > >Also the DEBUG_SERIAL option in rombios.c is very useful.  You can
> > >enable it and all the bochs bios messages will be redirected out the
> > >serial port.  This way you can see if bochs rombios is even getting
> > >called.  You have to turn it back off to get text on the VGA screen.
> > >But your cards VSYNC should happen regardless. (assuming the vbios
> > >runs
> > >correctly)
> > >
> > >I leave in a few hours and won't be back till Tuesday the 2nd so you
> > >are
> > >on your own for a few days.  I'll try to check email during that
> > >time
> > >but I'm not promising anything.
> > >
> > >Search the mailing list for things like "ADLO", "vgabios", etc there
> > >are
> > >several threads on getting this up.
> >
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