[ltp] BIOS upgrade IHET42WW messes up display?

[Shigeo Tanai]

Forwarding a message from Nils Smeds <smeds@pdc.kth.se>.

>Reply-To: smeds@pdc.kth.se
>Subject: BIOS upgrade IHET42WW messes up display?
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:58:06 +1100
>From: Nils Smeds <smeds@filippan.pdc.kth.se>
>
>Sorry if this has appeared on the list earlier but it seems that my posting
>didn't go through to the list the previous times I tested. 
>
>/Nils
>
>---- Original message -----

Hello,

I am running RedHat 7, linux 2.2.17, on a IBM Thinkpad 600E 2645-550.
A year ago I was bitten by a BIOS upgrade where I couldn't boot Linux
after upgrading so I downgraded to BIOS 1.00.

Today I was thinking of upgrading to maybe get more functionality in
tpctl working. I get the message:
tpctl: SMAPI BIOS error 0x53 ("SMAPI function is not available") -- exiting.

I installed the BIOS IHET42WW (v.1.10) released in Oct. 00 and configured it.
Everything was fine in Win98, but when booting in Linux the screen goes blank
in the boot sequence. The visual boot image screen is fine as is the next image
where the image starts to load, but when it executes the kernel (I belive it
is) the screen goes blind and there is nothing one can do. The machine comes up
perfectly and fully, but no screen. reinstalling the 1.00 BIOS put everything
back to normal again.

Anyone seen the same thing - or anyone having a suggested BIOS level to run?

Sorry if this has been asked already. I just signed up on the list and the
archive only goes to October.

/Nils


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