Booting ATest board with external monitor

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:57 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> I got 182 to work with an older kernel (I used 2.6.18-20061106.3.olpc. 
> 6a94be8adce907b from #155) and a patched /etc/init.d/olpc-configure  
> script. The latter erroneously detects a DCON which I do not actually  
> have on my A-test board, and overwrites the good xorg.conf with the  
> DCON variant.

The dcon detection is getting fixed today hopefully.  We'll also require
people to upgrade to the release BIOS to get stuff working properly, but
we'll have flash key images available that you can just plug in, boot
up, and it will reflash your BIOS.

Dan

> Glad to hear that a new linuxbios would allow to use the later kernel.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> On Nov 16, 2006, at 18:28 , Takashi Yamamiya wrote:
> 
> > I have tested with build #122, #140, #157, #168, #182 images after
> > build 91 on A-board. They worked almost fine. I had to update linux  
> > bios
> > (olpcflash -w /var/lib/olpc/linuxbios.rom) with each image. And I copy
> > /etc/X11/geode-xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf on recent images.
> >
> > Richard Hughes wrote:
> >> Sure, sounds good - those BTest machines look fantastic by the way.
> >> What's the newest build that should work with ATest? An answer of "I
> >> dunno, test some..." is perfectly okay ;-)
> 
> 
> 
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