Found the answer.
It seems my dd returned an unusable binary. I found a good binary for The nvidia card from here: http://whitebunny.demon.nl/hardware/chipset_nvidia.html
Seems they use a windows tool to retrieve the rom. Perhaps with this Card being so new this was the problem I was having. In any even My GeForce 6800GT now works under Linux bios:)
Hope this helps someone.
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Dave Aubin Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:01 AM To: linuxbios@clustermatic.org Subject: Testbios help with nvidia 6800Gt and simple how to
Hello,
I'm trying to get an nvidia 6800 Gt video card to work with linuxbios, but I am coming up short. Below is a mini how to with test bios and I did follow the steps, but it still doesn't work. Can someone please help me? I did the exact same steps with an nvidia5950 and it worked great. Is there something I am missing?
Simple Test Bios How to.
Purpose: Testbios provides an i386 emulator for programming the video bios.
How to: First you need to retrieve the video bios from a machine booted up with a commercial bios running linux. Then once that is done you can execute the bios by using testbios.
How to retrieve video bios 1. Boot up machine with commercial bios in to a linux environment 2. dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=128 from a terminal window A. This copies the video bios out of /dev/mem and places it in vgabios.bin
How to execute testbios 1. Boot up machine with Linuxbios in to a linux environment 2. run testbios --abseg /dev/mem -s 65536 /root/vgabios.bin A. If working you should see the video bios welcome message on the screen
Thanks, Dave:) _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios