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SubjectRe: nvidia fb flicker
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:35:54 +0100, Marc Koschewski wrote:
>
>> * Calin A. Culianu <calin@ajvar.org> [2005-11-26 00:02:46 -0500]:
>>
>>> [12 quoted lines suppressed]
>> Hi all,
>>
>> yesterday I compiled a 2.6.15-rc2 on one of my Inspirons (NVIDIA GeForce2 Go)
>> with nvidiafb. I just changed the fb to some 1600x1200 mode and thus seems to
>> work (the source states GeForce2 Go is supported and known). However, the
>> letters seems to 'flicker' in some way. Uhm, it's not really flickering, it's
>> more like the sinle dots a letter is made of seem to randomly turn on an off. I
>> one takes a closer look it seems like the whole screen is 'fluent' or something.
>> Does anybody know how to handle that? I didn't specify a video mode, but
>> 'video=vesafb:mtrr:3'.
>
> Let me guess ... you have a Dell Inspiron 8200 or some such? You must
> compile nvidiafb without support for DDC.
>
> (Antonio, any news on disabling DDC from the command line? like a
> noddc option or some such?)

Yes, I always forget :-). Let me see if we can have something that is nicer
(Linus' patch looks good so maybe you can help verify that). See the other
thread.

Tony

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