Intel graphics users: send me your VBIOS

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Fri Sep 18 21:45:38 UTC 2009


Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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!

Count me among the stupid.  Sorry!  I'll resend it to ajax.  Sorry!
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