Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261171AbUCKLAP (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:00:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261179AbUCKLAP (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:00:15 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:32901 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261171AbUCKLAK (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:00:10 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Giuseppe Bilotta Subject: Re: Framebuffer with nVidia GeForce 2 Go on Dell Inspiron 8200 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:51:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: oblomov.dipmat.unict.it X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1732 Lines: 42 James Simmons wrote: > > > 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. Yes :) > > 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? I tried vga=ask, and no VESA modes are detected. > > 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. Is there a particular reason why it would blank out even when just asking for information, without changing any setting? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta Can't you see It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollar and cents Pounds shillings and pence (Roger Waters) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/