Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:00:41 +0800 | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: nvidia fb flicker |
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Marc Koschewski wrote: > * Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> [2005-11-28 20:31:30 +0800]: > >> Marc Koschewski wrote: >>> * Calin A. Culianu <calin@ajvar.org> [2005-11-26 00:02:46 -0500]: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> This patch can be applied against 2.6.15-rc1 to add support to the >>>> nvidiafb driver for a few obscure (yet on-the-market) nvidia >>>> boards/chipsets, including various versions of the Geforce 6600 and 6200. >>>> >>>> This patch has been tested and allows the above-mentioned boards to get >>>> framebuffer console support. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> -Calin >>> 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 >> Can you try booting with video=nvidiafb:1600x1200MR@60? >> >> If that still does not work, can you open drivers/video/fbmon.c then change >> the line #undef DEBUG to #define DEBUG, recompile, reboot and post your >> dmesg? >> >>> 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'. >>> >> No, remove any vga= and video=vesafb: strings in your boot options. > > So, I just booted with the parameter given by you (and without vga= as usual), as > well as without any parameter. No change though. >
Try again with CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C = n in your kernel config.
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