I am having the same problem. I upgraded from a 486-66 non pnp
motherboard to a Award BIOS PNP motherboard and now X11 wont work. I have
an ASUS p55TP4XE motherboard with AWARD BIOS 115 (brand new) and a
Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM TI3026 ramdac. When I start up X the
screen just goes blank after changing video modes.
I have tried everything I can think of. I flashed in a new BIOS,
I have set tons of different CMOS options, tried the newest XFree86
beta. Does anyone have any ideas? It all worked fine in my 486. I
have tried kernels 1.2.13, 1.3.56, and 1.3.62 all with the same results.
Thanks, Joel Young jdyoung@erinet.com
On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, Herbert Wengatz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm using Linux several years now. (2-3) I just bought me a new
> mainboard and with this new mainboard, my X11 won't start up any
> more!
>
> I have 3 PCI Cards, 1 ELSA Winner 1000 Trio64, 1 AHA2940W, 1 NCR825S.
>
> They all worked together nicely in my *old* 100 MHz AMD 486 board
> from Gigabyte. So I was VERY astonished, that after swapping the
> boards, X11 won't run any longer. (Though everything else seems
> to run fine. - Even M$-DO$ and WinDow$. :((( )
> This *old* Board has a green-AWARD-BIOS, but without PnP.
>
> First I tried the Gigabyte GA-5486AL Board. But I thought, it was the
> ALi-Chipset, which was causing the troubles. So I went back to my
> dealer and got a SOYO-Mainboard. - The same problem !!! :-((((
> Now I thought, that it may be the new CPU (AMD 5x86-P75-S, 133 MHz),
> so I plugged in my old CPU. -> The result hit me like a Hammer:
> I still didn't work. - It wasn't the Chipset (Tha SOYO-Board has a SiS),
> It wasn't the CPU, it even couldn't relly be the board, so what
> had they in common ????
>
> The only thing both new boards have in common is:
> The new AWARD PnP-BIOS ! :-(((((
>
> So please, tell me anybody, if there's a mailing list, which has this problem
> as theme, or someone who tries to help those poor fellows with PnP-BIOSes...
>
> I feel like being severely PnP impaired ! :-(
>
> Any help appreciated !!!
>
> Yours,
>
> Herby
>
> BTW: I use Linux 1.2.8 with AHA2940-Patches and currently 1.3.59 both with
> the smae problem. So it's not a fault of Linux ! :-))))))))
>
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