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From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: nvidia fb flicker
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:57:57 +0100
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:35:54 +0100, Marc Koschewski wrote:

> * Calin A. Culianu <calin@ajvar.org> [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

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