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post #491 of 618
1/18/13 at 6:41pm
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I'm going to give this another try and compile 4.2 from source with this patch http://www.davidgis.fr/download/xen-4.2_rev25240_gfx-passthrough-patchs.tar.bz2 but it needs my vga bios.

I'm stumped on how to extract that though. I see a lot of discussion lists mentioning nvtools, but I just can't find anything about what it is or how to use it. I found this site http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/nvtools/ but it fails to compile.

Any help?

You can download ir from here http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/
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post #492 of 618
1/18/13 at 11:43pm
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Originally Posted by Chetyre View Post

Asrock has confirmed that VT-D will no longer work in their bios 2.70 update for both Z77 Extreme4 and Z77 Extreme6.

So people looking for those two boards and maybe others need to be careful about the bios version shipped.

What was it that they said exactly? I am curious because I have heard differing reports.
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post #493 of 618
1/19/13 at 2:26am
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You can download ir from here http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/

Thanks, I'll give it a try. But still how would I extract it myself if ever needed?

This is my card http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/index.php?page=1&architecture=NVIDIA&manufacturer=XFX&model=GTS+250&interface=PCI-E&memSize=512

as you can see there are 5 different bioses... I don't know how to find out which one is mine
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What was it that they said exactly? I am curious because I have heard differing reports.

This is directly from my email:
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-My Name-;

After you update the BIOS with the 2.70 the VT-D not longer works



ASRock America Support

BTW , you do not need to update the BIOS if you do not have problems





ASRock America Support



Their English is pretty terrible. I asked why they removed support too, but they never answered that.
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post #494 of 618
1/19/13 at 10:29am
Get gpu-z and check your bios version there, you could also try to match the default clocks to the bios posted there, to extract it just unzip it, it should contain a .bin or .rom file, rename that to vgabios-pt.bin and put it on /tools/firmware/vgabios/vgabios-pt.bin
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post #495 of 618
1/19/13 at 1:47pm
I managed to do it with nvflash. I compiled an older version for the yet-unstable 4.2 version because the patches are all very old. they date to almost a year ago.

Anyway, it compiled, but I couldn't get pciback to work, so still no deal...
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post #496 of 618
1/19/13 at 2:07pm
I sugest you use xen-4.1.4 with xend, im using radeon cards atm but i managed to passthrough a nvidia card (9800gt) not so long ago with xen 4.1
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post #497 of 618
1/19/13 at 2:08pm
BTW what distro are you using?
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post #498 of 618
1/19/13 at 4:41pm
CentOS 6.3
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post #499 of 618
1/19/13 at 5:14pm
If pciback is compiled as a module, you have to include it on the intramfs, if its not even built as module, you might have to rebuild your kernel, anyway, i recomend archlinux, its quite easy to create custom made packages for it.
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post #500 of 618
1/19/13 at 7:46pm
I have arch for everyday use on my laptop, but for my dom0 I was aiming for a more stable distro. It was either CentOS or Debian
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