Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:32:47 -0700 | From | David Benfell <> | Subject | Re: Screen corruption on startup 2.4.0-test7 |
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:13:50PM -0400, James Simmons wrote: > > > > What video driver are you using? Fbcon or vgacon? If Fbcon which fbdev > > > driver in particular? > > > > > This would be vgacon, having never figured out if it's even possible > > to get framebuffers working on the machine. > > > > Also, the normal power-saving/screen-saving function of blanking the > > screen is not working. > > Vgacon !!! Have you tried putting that video card in another machine and > testing the same kernel? Trust me. When I was a sys admin the first thing > we did was swap hardware into another machine to see if it was a hardware > problem. > This is a laptop. The video chipset is Neomagic 2160. The problem reappeared with a reboot but disappeared when I went back to 2.2.16.
I've built 2.2.17 for it but haven't gotten around to rebooting it to see how that goes.
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