RE: testbios loops?

[Dave Aubin]

Starting up X causes bad things, ie hang!

I'm building the log now and will send in separate message.

Thanks,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Smith [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 11:15 AM
To: [e-mail]; Dave Aubin
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: testbios loops?

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Dave Aubin  [041008 16:35]:
> > I went back to trying to get the Nvida 6800gt card's bios, but still
> > even with dd -if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.rom skip=786432 bs=1 count=32768 
> > I get the same binary as dd -if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.rom skip=1536 
> > count=64.
>
> Does the bios have a valid pci option rom signature? (55aa plus the 
> other stuff, see romheaders utility in the openbios tree)

Or use hd and see whats at 0xc0000.  Also fire up X and look at your
log.  It outputs a lot of good info.