Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg <at> britannica.bec.de> writes:

> 
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:24:28AM -0400, William E. Pflum Jr wrote:
> > I have an Emphase IBOX AMD LX-800 which has a Geode processor and an AMD
> > graphics chipset.  I can get a PXE boot to netbsd ok but no matter if I use
> > the original XF86 or Xorg X server I get a flash on the screen of some
> > colors and then a black screen.  The system is still running as I can enter
> > commands and they work but I cannot see any screen until I reboot.  If I
> > look at the Xorg log, I see a VBESetVBEMode failed error and then an A2
> > ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE and finally a Fatal Server error:
> > AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0.
> 
> Many Xorg drivers have an option to forcefully disable the BIOS calls.
> Can you try that? Otherwise which chipset is it exactly?
> 
> Joerg
> 
> 


I went back and looked and I think it's part of the Geode chipset itself. It 
shows up in dmesg as: 

vga0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1: Advanced Micro Devices product 0x2081 (rev. 0x00)

I think thats why I assumed a seperate amd chipset but it looks like it is part 
of the processor chipset itself.

Just a note, I did have this running with a DSL image on a usb flash mem stick 
and it did bring up a desktop so I'm assuming it can be done.

Bill