Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765960AbXE2UMp (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 16:12:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765858AbXE2UMd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 16:12:33 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:19062 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760374AbXE2UMc (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 16:12:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MEc2fg+ilM95D7Bbr9Va9KrHo37qolo8Ka4VVY0NBgyqk/2Pd3tD75TJT66MzdkaY1bnn62cwKBLS9bFM4KBguesabh9oHVJBOPZ2K09VL9+wdogeAr7yoREeMVQA+2VHl8L3do1ZLiWfdvsznSLSadQxaw16vaYdvHVszgubHc= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 16:12:32 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: Nvidiafb issues on Inspiron 8100 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1180129321.4627.17.camel@daplas> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200705240137.35955.dtor@insightbb.com> <1180129321.4627.17.camel@daplas> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1360 Lines: 38 On 5/25/07, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 01:37 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Hi Antonino, > > > > I am having the following issues on my Dell Inspiron 8100. They are not > > new but I just got around to report them. > > > > With CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C I get 1600x1200 resolution but pixels > > "swarming" and it is unuseable. There are following messages in > > dmesg (note complaints from i2c): > > Looks like an EDID block not accessible by i2c and only available > through the BIOS. And it's probably broken too. > > Can you #define DEBUG in drivers/video/fbmon.c, enable > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID, the post your dmesg? > > For now, the best you can do is disable i2c support and add: > > video=nvidiafb:1600x1200@60 > > in your boot line. You know, I disabled Nvidia's DDC stuff and enabled firmware EDID again and it started working fine, even without video=nvidiafb:1600x1200MR on the command line that I had for a long time. So it works fine now. Would you oppode adding dmi check for inspiron 8100 to automatically disable nvidia i2c support at runtime? -- Dmitry - 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/