Marc Koschewski wrote:
> * Antonino A. Daplas <[email protected]> [2005-11-28 20:31:30 +0800]:
>
>> Marc Koschewski wrote:
>>> * Calin A. Culianu <[email protected]> [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.
Tony
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