VIA and VGA BIOS image is wrong!! CheckSum = 5e403c

[Jeremy C. Reed]

Please see this posting to freebsd-mobile

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=20992+0+current/freebsd-mobile

I have similar issue with US$399 laptop called a GQ (Great Quality)
MX-3201.

scanpci tells me I have:

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x01 function 0x00: vendor 0x1106 device 0xb091
 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]

pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1106 device 0x3122
 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE226] integrated CastleRock graphics

I am running FreeBSD 5.3 with its 5.3 release version of Xorg server.

Xorg says release date 18 December 2003 (that is wrong). The package is
xorg-server-6.7.0_9.

Xorg -configure defined:

 Driver "via"
 VendorName "Unknown Vendor"
 BoardName "Unknown Board"
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

I also can't get VESA or VGA to work. (Only 320x200 is displayed, but is
entirely garbage and unreadable.)

With VIA as configured with Xorg -configure, X never appears and startx
appears to hang. When I switch virtual consoles, I receive:

VGA BIOS image is wrong!! CheckSum = 5e403c
X in free (); error: page is already free
Abort (core dumped)

Any ideas?

I can provide logs and debugging output.

Thanks,

 Jeremy C. Reed

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