Intel graphics users: send me your VBIOS

Adam Tkac atkac at redhat.com
Mon Sep 21 12:13:33 UTC 2009


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.

Regards, Adam

-- 
Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.




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