Okay, now here's exactly what I did. #sudo su
Then this command still doesn't work. cd /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:02.0/ I don't have that directory in my system. So I type the closest thing that seems to make sense # cd /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 # echo 1 > rom # cat rom > /tmp/rom.bin # echo 0 > rom and I don't really get any feedback. So to view the file I type this... # sudo nano /tmp/rom.bin at the contents of the rom.bin file don't look like tells much of anything usuable. It's mostly jumbled but contains this 00IBM VGA Compatible BIOS. @$VBT CRESTLINE and then this... ^C1533Intel(r)Crestline PCI Accelerated SVGA BIOS Build Number: 1318 PC 14.18 04/06/2006 18:05:12 DECOMPILATION OR DISASSEMBLY PROHIBITED [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Intel Corp. All Rig$ And then after more garbled mess there's Total time for VGA initialization < 10 MilliSeconds ** Attachment added: "rom.bin" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19827268/rom.bin -- [i965] Dell Studio 15 White Screen on X startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297245 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
