Re: [Libreboot] lcd-panel 1440x900 not working (external monitor ok)

[Marcel Maci]

Hi Leah

Thx for your answer. I tried experimental_86_g07ed7f9 with my Thinkpad T400 
today. Everything is running (I can tell from the noise of the HDD and also 
indicator of wifi comes up after blindly logging into the system), but graphics 
fail completely: not even external VGA-Monitor works and LCD-panel doesnt even 
flicker. Sewed an opening in the metal chassis today, so that I can access the 
flash chip more easily now (see photo attached, I was really fed up with all 
those screws, the heatsink and thermal paste ... :-), so flashing and testing a 
new image is much more straightforward now.

As to the Thinkpad x60s: the improvements sound great, but I will leave it as 
it is for the moment (I use it as my main computer for office work at the 
moment, so it has to work ... ;-), but I have another Thinkpad x60 (not the s 
model) which I can try instead.

Let me know if you want me to test another release candidate.

Marcel


On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:02:06 +0100
Leah Rowe <address@hidden> wrote:

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> Hi Marcel,
> 
> Op 27/07/16 om 19:41 schreef Marcel Maci:
> > 
> > Hi Leah Thx for your quick answer. I actually tried
> > libreboot_experimental-84-g2f2e2ee_grub_t400_8mbcd image
> > t400_8mb_usqwerty_txtmode.rom today. I had inserted MAC-Adress with
> > ich9gen and then flashed it directly on the Thinkpad (with flashrom
> > utility from stable release). I used txtmode because I thought that
> > this way I could at least get GRUB. Dont know, what went wrong
> > (maybe I should have flashed it externally again or used ./flash
> > update instead of flashrom?), but after the flash, the computer
> > didn't boot any more. So I flashed the 20150518 image again with
> > Raspberry Pi. If you think that there is a chance that it works
> > with the vesa image (instead of txtmode), I can try that (in the
> > next days or so) Thx a lot for your work: libreboot is genious (I
> > already use it on a Thinkpad x60s and it works great!!) Marcel
> 
> I don't know whether the vesa image will work for you. Please try it,
> using libreboot-experimental-86 or later. Note that if it does work,
> the expected behaviour is to still see nothing in GRUB, but at that
> point if booting a kernel with KMS enabled (most of them) then you
> should see some output.
> 
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