Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:14:25 +0000 (GMT)
From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
To: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>
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Subject: Re: Framebuffer with nVidia GeForce 2 Go on Dell Inspiron 8200
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> 1. The vga framebuffer works. I can even bring the monitor to 800x600 
> in tweaked VGA mode.

Cool :-) I assume you mean the vga16fb driver.

> 2. The VESA framebuffer does not work. Apparently, the card is not 
> detected as VESA-compatible. (I'm not 100% sure about this --how can 
> I check if this is indeed the case?)

Are you sure. Take a look at your vga= parmeter. What is its value?
 
> 3. The Riva framebuffer doesn't work either. It detects the video 
> card all right, understands that I'm running on a laptop and thus 
> with an LCD monitor, but as soon as I "touch" it (be it even just 
> with a fbset -i to find the information), the screen goes blank or 
> has some very funny graphical effects (fade to black in the middle, 
> etc). The system doesn't lock up (I can still blind-type and reset 
> it), but I can't use it.
> 
> Does anybody know what could be wrong?

That is a bug in fbcon layer. Now that I have my home system back up I 
plan to test my radeon card to track down the bug that was preventing the 
layer from properly resizing the screen.


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