[OLPC-devel] Re: LinuxBIOS update status

[Ronald G Minnich]

Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 21/08/06 22:13 -0400, Ivan Krsti?? wrote:
> 
>>- David, can you brief us on where your machine currently stands? If I
>>understand correctly, you've successfully flashed it with LinuxBIOS, but
>>don't have it giving a usable VGA signal (is it expecting the DCON to be
>> there?), so you can only use it through ssh. Is this accurate? How long
>>will this take to fix?
> 
> 
> Technically, the signal is bad because the current build sets mode
> 1200x900 at 50, which may or may not please your monitor (probably not).
> We have two possible courses of action here:
> 
> 1) Change the default mode to something standard (like 1024x768) for the
> first build (and change it back when we go wide with the DCON image).
> 
> 2) Replace the 1200x900 at 50 mode with a 1200x900 at 75 mode.
> 
> In both cases, we're eventually going to insert the right mode depending 
> if we detect a DCON or not, but that will have to wait for me to get a DCON
> to make sure the LinuxBIOS detection works correctly.
> 
> Jordan
> 

well, since almost none of us have displays, I think vga compat is a 
must :-)

ron