From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.optiscan.com (mail.optiscan.com [203.26.112.1]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0115EDE092 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:37:12 +1100 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Boot w/ VGA console - PCI nvidia Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:20:11 +1100 Message-ID: <34E73CC1202BF246B7DE3463BEBC0689303D81@postie.optiscan.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c741af$310ff4c0$6405a8c0@absolut> References: <000001c741af$310ff4c0$6405a8c0@absolut> From: "Bill Farrow" To: List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Russell McGuire wrote: > Next I have plugged in a nVidia GeForce FX5200 PCI card, > and compiled in the nvidafb driver. > > I can see clearly the PCI card is being detected and the > nvidiafb driver is being registerd, it can even detect > the monitor I have connected. > > However, when I enabled the kernel to use the framer > buffer console, by compiling in that feature, it just=20 > 'seems' to hang after the console_init call. Hi Russ, I got to the same point last year with an ATI PCI card on a MPC8560 system. At this stage, I believe that to get the card displaying graphics you will need to run the card's Video BIOS to initialise the card correctly. I'm guessing that you are running a PPC cpu :-) and that the FX5200 is a consumer x86 graphics card. If so, the Video BIOS will be x86 instructions and you will need to run it with an emulator. A company called SciTech is maintaining an x86emu project for doing this: http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/dev/x86_emulator.html I believe that Xorg also has a x86emu module, so I was going to see if I could get an Xorg installation going and let it do it's magic. For us, getting Xorg running would prove the graphics capability of our platform and we can start writing a GUI. Then it would be just a matter of getting uBoot to display something during boot to keep the customers happy... Bill