Intel graphics users: send me your VBIOS

Adam Tkac atkac at redhat.com
Mon Sep 21 12:19:28 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 02:13:33PM +0200, Adam Tkac wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 02:45:10PM -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.
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> my ROM image is attached. My system is Lenovo ThinkPad X61s. It has
> one LCD display and one VGA connector, I attached stripped lspci
> output as well. Let me know if you need more info.

Oops, should be sent to ajax, not to -devel-list. Sorry for spamming.

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Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.




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