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    • tiggymiggyT
      tiggymiggy @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10

      Could the voltage calculation have something to do with this? values are off... seem to need to divide by 4 to get in the right ballpark. i will keep looking though

      Meaning of the fid and vid
      The frequency ID (fid) is the multiplier for the reference clock (e.g. the FSB clock). The voltage ID (vid) is processor specific.

      Unfortunately Intel publishes no information about the meaning of this value but the conversion formula for Core CPU's seems to be

      UCpu = 700 mV + vid x 12.5 mV

      and for Core 2 CPU's it seems to be

      UCpu = 800 mV + vid x 12.5 mV

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        Xerox
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        Hi all
        Is amibcp useful to change what is displayed on LCD ??
        What field ?

        After flashrom xtm5_83.rom it displays pfsense v1.8

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          You have to extract the module and then hex-edit it to change that. Or at least that's what I did long, long ago!

          There are some more details on the forum here if you search through it.

          Steve

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            CodeJACK
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            Maybe you are referring to once pfsense is booted, you want to see other details on the LCD?

            If so, you need to install the LCDproc package from the pfsense package manager. You will then see all the options that can be output on the LCD.

            I've not been able to get this working with 2.7 though. So if anyone has any ideas for that???

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Works fine in 2.7 for me. What problem are you seeing?

              The only issue is the button mapping is incorrect. I think that's because it conflicted with the older devices at the time but none of those run pfSense any longer so maybe time to update it.

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                CodeJACK @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10 LCDproc service wont even start on mine.

                Maybe its something left over from the upgrade as the install of Unifi Network Manager is also screwed since upgrading. ( https://github.com/unofficial-unifi/unifi-pfsense )

                Is there any log in particular that I can explore to find out exactly why the service wont start?

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Try to start the service then check the system log. Though anything could be happening if you loaded that unifi package. That could very well be completely broken in 2.7 and may have pulled in some bad pkgs that also broke lcdproc.

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                    CodeJACK @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 Yeah, I thought that too but stripped it out and still have the same issue. I might try fresh install this weekend and see if there is any better results.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      If you try starting lcdproc at the CLI it might throw more useful errors. If there have been some bad packages pulled in there will likely be missing lib errors.

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                        CodeJACK @stephenw10
                        last edited by CodeJACK

                        @stephenw10 OK, couldnt wait and had a look. So it seems there was a new version of LCDproc released in the past couple of days. I was using 0.11.4_1 but this version is now installed: 0.11.4_2
                        Yup, some changes were made but not seemingly something that should have affected me:
                        https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commits/devel/sysutils/pfSense-pkg-LCDproc

                        It wouldnt start manually either when i ran "service lcdproc onestart" so I tried running "service LCDd onestart" and it started and displayed the server stats. So I restarted LCDproc and now its running without issues :-)

                        So I was either doing something stupid before or this new versions resolved something. Im thinking the former :-)

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                          Xerox
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                          I never installed pfsense on this machine, I installed a voip pbx based on centos7, installed flashrom and flashed xtm5_83.rom
                          From there, display says "pfsense v1.8" or so....

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Yeah, it's hardcoded in the BIOS module. To remind you to install pfSense. 😉

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                              Xerox @stephenw10
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                              So can't I modify the .rom file directly ?

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                That's not what I did. I opened the rom file, extracted the module, hex-edited it then reinserted the module. It was years ago though and pretty much the first time I'd tried anything like that so there may well be a better way now.

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                                  Xerox
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                                  Well, I don't understand the part "extract" the module from .rom file, which software to do it ?

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                                    Xerox @waterwall
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                                    @waterwall said in Watchguard XTM 5 Series:

                                    The MMTool program is used to extract/insert/replace individual modules within the BIOS

                                    A little step ahead....
                                    MMtool shows me various modules, which one is related to LCD string ??

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                                      Xerox @Xerox
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                                      @Xerox said in Watchguard XTM 5 Series:

                                      @waterwall said in Watchguard XTM 5 Series:

                                      The MMTool program is used to extract/insert/replace individual modules within the BIOS

                                      A little step ahead....
                                      MMtool shows me various modules, which one is related to LCD string ??

                                      Found, it's module 1B

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        Nice. That took me literally weeks the first time I tried it! 🙄

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                                        • mcdonnjdM
                                          mcdonnjd @stephenw10
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                                          @stephenw10 It always helps when someone else has paved the way to give pointers in where to look. Pretty sure I remember you giving some pretty good instructions on how you did it that I followed long ago. Or just knowing what to search for or something. I haven't modified the BIOS on this thing in forever. Still runs like a champ after all these years. Granted, I did upgrade to a Core2Quad @ 2.8GHz, 8GB RAM, and 2 SSDs which probably helped a good bit too. Surprisingly, it runs cool and quiet in the living room.

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                                            Xerox
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                                            Nice to know it can run on 8GB despite Lanner manual says max 4GB
                                            Is it achievable with bios mod or simply supported by chipset ?

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