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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:28:07 -0700
From: "Jordan Crouse" <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
To: "Andrew Paprocki" <andrew@ishiboo.com>
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Subject: Re: lxfb is not changing modes, no errors/information printing
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On 27/01/08 13:45 -0500, Andrew Paprocki wrote:
> Using 2.6.24, I can't get my Geode LX (LX800 CPU) to boot in anything
> other than the default 80x25 console even though lxfb appears to be
> loading normally. This device doesn't work with the VESA fb either
> when I request "vga=0x31a". All the other boards I have display a
> 1280x1024 console on my monitor. Are my kernel parameters wrong in
> some way? I tried "video=lxfb:<mode>" with and without "vga=0x31a".
> The driver is compiled into the kernel -- I am not using modules.

Can you change the mode after you have booted with 'fbset'?

> Also, a side note.. blanking on this display doesn't seem to work
> properly. When the screen would normally blank after a timeout, a thin
> ~20px width vertical black strip appears on the left-hand side of the
> screen, but the rest of the display area remains showing whatever
> contents were on the screen when the blank was triggered. Hitting a
> key goes back to displaying the current fb contents like you would
> expect.

Thanks for reporting that - thats a known bug, I'll send a patch to fix it.

Jordan

-- 
Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.


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