Testbios help with nvidia 6800Gt and simple how to

[Dave Aubin]

Ron,

  Please change my second example in the testbios faq to
Reflect Richard's change please.

Thanks,
Dave:) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Smith [mailto:rsmith at bitworks.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:01 PM
To: Dave Aubin
Cc: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
Subject: Re: Testbios help with nvidia 6800Gt and simple how to

Dave Aubin wrote:

> 	    	the video card you wish to work under linux bios.
> 	    ii. From the command line enter:
> 	        dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=128 or 
> 		dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin bs=1k count=64 skip=786432
> 

Oop. Thinko. My line is jacked up. should be for bs=1k skip=768. 
skip=786432 is for a block size of 1 byte.


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Richard A. Smith