From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: listmail Subject: Re: Re: vt-d p7p55d evo: Success Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:04:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC31A6E.1010308@triad.rr.com> References: <4BB6B79D.3070305@triad.rr.com> <20100411135031.GK1878@reaktio.net> <4BC219E0.5050506@triad.rr.com> <201004120855.54525.dietmar.hahn@ts.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201004120855.54525.dietmar.hahn@ts.fujitsu.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Dietmar Hahn Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 >> > > 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?