Intel graphics users: send me your VBIOS

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Sep 18 21:23:17 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 14:45 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> If you have a machine with an Intel graphics chip, I need your help.
> I'm trying to make LVDS connection detection actually reliable, and I
> think I have a solution that involves parsing BIOS data tables.  But I
> need more testcases to raise my confidence that it's actually a reliable
> method.
> 
> So, do this:
> 
> % sudo dd if=/dev/mem of=/tmp/rom bs=64k skip=12 count=1
> 
> and email me that rom file, along with a brief description of the
> machine, and in particular what graphics outputs (DVI, VGA, LVDS...) are
> _actually_ present on the machine.

People keep sending these to me. :)

You should be sending them to Adam JACKSON, ajax@ . Not Adam WILLIAMSON,
awilliam@ . I can't do anything with them. Thanks!

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