Re: testbios loops?

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Dave Aubin  [041008 16:35]:
> Hi,
>
> 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)

Stefan

testbios loops?

[Richard Smith]

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.