Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:03:52 +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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> > I tried vga=ask, and no VESA modes are detected.
> 
> Ok, I'm stupid. I tried vga=ask, told him to scan, still got no VESA 
> modes in the list, but thenand tried 318; it gave me 1024x768 (so did 
> 718 too, any reason why?). Can't get to 1600x1200, though (or at 
> least I don't know how.)

For some reason it never list the VESA modes with vga=ask. I just go by 
the does in Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt to set my mode. Let me look...

I need to add more info to the docs on what modes are supported. 
	1600x1200		
	---------
256	0x119	  0x145	
32K	0x11D	  0x146
64K	0x11E
16M		  0x14E

For lilo translate them to decimal number. I'm curious if the 14X numbers 
work.
 	
> Now that I can work with the VESA driver, I'm feeling much better, 
> but if I load the rivafb driver I *still* get the problem (I cannot 
> touch it, not even with fbset -i). Using 2.6.4;
> 
> Just for reference, these are the logs from vesafb, rivafb and lspci:

> >From rivafb:
> ===
> rivafb: nVidia device/chipset 10DE0112
> rivafb: On a laptop.  Assuming Digital Flat Panel
> rivafb: Detected CRTC controller 1 being used
> rivafb: RIVA MTRR set to ON
> rivafb: PCI nVidia NV10 framebuffer ver 0.9.5b (nVidiaGeForce2-G, 
> 32MB @ 0xE0000000) 
> ===
> 
> In this case, fbset -i returns (well, doesn't because the screen goes 
> black, but the computer is still fully functional):

That a bug I have to work. I have a newer driver but I need to run more 
test.


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