Intel graphics users: send me your VBIOS

Fulko Hew fulko.hew at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 19:51:48 UTC 2009


On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 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.
>


FYI (to the list), I already sent the following to Adam:

Dell Inspiron 6400 (aka 1505?) laptop
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