Messages in this thread | | | From | Giuseppe Bilotta <> | Subject | Re: Framebuffer with nVidia GeForce 2 Go on Dell Inspiron 8200 | Date | Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:51:08 +0100 |
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James Simmons wrote: > > > 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.
Yes :)
> > 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?
I tried vga=ask, and no VESA modes are detected.
> > 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.
Is there a particular reason why it would blank out even when just asking for information, without changing any setting?
-- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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