FYI
Supplied by Soyo support who are working on a BIOS upgrade for the Soyo
SY-5EHM.
----- Original Message -----
From: Soyo UK Support <support@soyo.co.uk>
To: <derrick@m-steed.freeserve.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 1:26 PM
Subject: RE: {003-381#2} Linux doesn't shutdown properly on SY-5EHM rev 2. 0
> Please use this patch to solve the issue until a new BIOS is written for
> your board.
>
> <<SOYO-2.2.14.APM.patch-1.00.tar.gz>>
>
> FAE Department
> Soyo (UK) Ltd.
>
> Tel: 020 8569 4111
> Fax: 020 8569 4134
>
> www.soyo.co.uk
> support@soyo.co.uk
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Derrick Steed[derrick@m-steed.freeserve.co.uk]
> >Date: Saturday, February 05, 2000 03:50 PM
> >To: support@soyo.nl[support@soyo.nl]
> >Subject: Linux doesn't shutdown properly on SY-5EHM rev 2.0
> >
> >
> >I note that the Soyo web site has published a BIOS upgrade for the
> >SY-5EMA which deals with Linux shutdown issue.
> >
> >The SY-5EHM also exhibits this problem - on shutdown a page fault is
> >reported in the halt process during last stages of shutdown. This is
> due
> >to the BIOS attempting to resolve a real address whilst still in
> >protected mode. Windows 95 doesn't exhibit this problem because it
> >switches to real mode prior to calling the BIOS routine.
> >
> >Please supply a revised BIOS (I suppose this will be similar to the
> 5EMA
> >fix) to fix this problem.
> >
> >Rgds,
> >
> >Derrick.
>
>
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