Re: Re: vt-d p7p55d evo: Success

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Dietmar Hahn wrote:
>> - How did it work.. did you have some issues?
>> the nv driver on linux works fine (as good as it can)
>> it takes a bit before you see VGA output on boot
>>     
>
> Did you see any boot messages of the BIOS / grub
> on the console device (with this gfx adapter) before the linux
> kernel boot messages and the X11 screen?
>   
No output only appeared some time after the kernel had already started.  
I wasn't sure what to expect here.  Would there be any more useful 
information to provide?
>> the console cursor was positioned higher than normal (sitting at over 
>> the halfway mark for the font)
>> shutdown of Xorg can leave you with a blank console
>> shutdown then Restart of domU without restarting dom0 may lead to no VGA 
>> output, however you can still ssh in and startx (Xorg) and it will 
>> produce output
>>     
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> This is the same behavior as on my laptop where the copied VGA-BIOS not
> works in the domU (beside no FLR - see flag FLReset-).
>
> Dietmar.
>   
It is copied directly from the card just before domU starts right?  I 
read something about that the card's bios can change after it first 
initialized when the computer starts, is there an option to test using a 
file based copy of the bios?