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DateTue, 29 Nov 2005 10:08:53 +0100
FromMarc Koschewski <>
SubjectRe: nvidia fb flicker
* Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com> [2005-11-28 20:57:57 +0100]:

> 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.
> 

Yes, I do. ;) Setting CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=n made it work. I'll do the patches
stuff now first, before I'm going to disable DDC.

Marc
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