testbios loops?
Dave Aubin
daubin at actuality-systems.com
Fri Oct 8 10:03:39 CEST 2004
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:rsmith at bitworks.com]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 11:15 AM
To: stepan at openbios.org; Dave Aubin
Cc: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
Subject: Re: testbios loops?
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Dave Aubin <daubin at actuality-systems.com> [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.
--
Richard A. Smith
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