On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 14:45 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > If you have a machine with an Intel graphics chip, I need your help. > I'm trying to make LVDS connection detection actually reliable, and I > think I have a solution that involves parsing BIOS data tables. But I > need more testcases to raise my confidence that it's actually a reliable > method. > > So, do this: > > % sudo dd if=/dev/mem of=/tmp/rom bs=64k skip=12 count=1 > > and email me that rom file, along with a brief description of the > machine, and in particular what graphics outputs (DVI, VGA, LVDS...) are > _actually_ present on the machine. Just as a clarification: the problem I'm trying to solve here is the appearance of an LVDS output (from X's perspective) when there is not one actually present. So, ROMs from machines that have had a phantom LVDS connector at some point in the past are especially valuable. IIRC the Mac Mini and Dell Studio compact machines have had this problem before. There's one particular field in the connector table for LVDS that seems to be indicative of LVDS presence. So far, for machines where LVDS really is present, it's consistently non-zero (and these are very common, since everybody buys laptops these days). I'd like to find more machines where LVDS is _not_ present to see if it's consistently zero there; so far that seems to be the case, but I've only got two samples... - ajax
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