Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:20:17 +0800 | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: nvidia fb flicker |
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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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