Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:14:25 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: Framebuffer with nVidia GeForce 2 Go on Dell Inspiron 8200 |
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> 1. The vga framebuffer works. I can even bring the monitor to 800x600 > in tweaked VGA mode.
Cool :-) I assume you mean the vga16fb driver.
> 2. The VESA framebuffer does not work. Apparently, the card is not > detected as VESA-compatible. (I'm not 100% sure about this --how can > I check if this is indeed the case?)
Are you sure. Take a look at your vga= parmeter. What is its value?
> 3. The Riva framebuffer doesn't work either. It detects the video > card all right, understands that I'm running on a laptop and thus > with an LCD monitor, but as soon as I "touch" it (be it even just > with a fbset -i to find the information), the screen goes blank or > has some very funny graphical effects (fade to black in the middle, > etc). The system doesn't lock up (I can still blind-type and reset > it), but I can't use it. > > Does anybody know what could be wrong?
That is a bug in fbcon layer. Now that I have my home system back up I plan to test my radeon card to track down the bug that was preventing the layer from properly resizing the screen.
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