On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:35:54 +0100, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> * Calin A. Culianu <[email protected]> [2005-11-26 00:02:46 -0500]:
>
>> [12 quoted lines suppressed]
>
> Hi all,
>
> yesterday I compiled a 2.6.15-rc2 on one of my Inspirons (NVIDIA GeForce2 Go)
> with nvidiafb. I just changed the fb to some 1600x1200 mode and thus seems to
> work (the source states GeForce2 Go is supported and known). However, the
> letters seems to 'flicker' in some way. Uhm, it's not really flickering, it's
> more like the sinle dots a letter is made of seem to randomly turn on an off. I
> one takes a closer look it seems like the whole screen is 'fluent' or something.
> Does anybody know how to handle that? I didn't specify a video mode, but
> 'video=vesafb:mtrr:3'.
Let me guess ... you have a Dell Inspiron 8200 or some such? You must
compile nvidiafb without support for DDC.
(Antonio, any news on disabling DDC from the command line? like a
noddc option or some such?)
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
Hic manebimus optime
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:35:54 +0100, Marc Koschewski wrote:
>
>> * Calin A. Culianu <[email protected]> [2005-11-26 00:02:46 -0500]:
>>
>>> [12 quoted lines suppressed]
>> Hi all,
>>
>> yesterday I compiled a 2.6.15-rc2 on one of my Inspirons (NVIDIA GeForce2 Go)
>> with nvidiafb. I just changed the fb to some 1600x1200 mode and thus seems to
>> work (the source states GeForce2 Go is supported and known). However, the
>> letters seems to 'flicker' in some way. Uhm, it's not really flickering, it's
>> more like the sinle dots a letter is made of seem to randomly turn on an off. I
>> one takes a closer look it seems like the whole screen is 'fluent' or something.
>> Does anybody know how to handle that? I didn't specify a video mode, but
>> 'video=vesafb:mtrr:3'.
>
> Let me guess ... you have a Dell Inspiron 8200 or some such? You must
> compile nvidiafb without support for DDC.
>
> (Antonio, any news on disabling DDC from the command line? like a
> noddc option or some such?)
Yes, I always forget :-). Let me see if we can have something that is nicer
(Linus' patch looks good so maybe you can help verify that). See the other
thread.
Tony
PS: It's best if you don't trim the cc list.
* Giuseppe Bilotta <[email protected]> [2005-11-28 20:57:57 +0100]:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:35:54 +0100, Marc Koschewski wrote:
>
> > * Calin A. Culianu <[email protected]> [2005-11-26 00:02:46 -0500]:
> >
> >> [12 quoted lines suppressed]
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > yesterday I compiled a 2.6.15-rc2 on one of my Inspirons (NVIDIA GeForce2 Go)
> > with nvidiafb. I just changed the fb to some 1600x1200 mode and thus seems to
> > work (the source states GeForce2 Go is supported and known). However, the
> > letters seems to 'flicker' in some way. Uhm, it's not really flickering, it's
> > more like the sinle dots a letter is made of seem to randomly turn on an off. I
> > one takes a closer look it seems like the whole screen is 'fluent' or something.
> > Does anybody know how to handle that? I didn't specify a video mode, but
> > 'video=vesafb:mtrr:3'.
>
> Let me guess ... you have a Dell Inspiron 8200 or some such? You must
> compile nvidiafb without support for DDC.
>
Yes, I do. ;) Setting CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=n made it work. I'll do the patches
stuff now first, before I'm going to disable DDC.
Marc