VESA fb problem with 2.6.7-mm[567]
The nvidia graphics card in one of my laptops cannot be talked into working with vesafb:
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ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:01.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 5 of device 0000:00:01.1
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([email protected])
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0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
Short:
* vesafb fails
* vga16fb works
The same kernel works on another laptop with another nvidia card. The only major difference is the unorthodox display resolution in this laptop (WXGA, 1280x800).
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Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V a) [email protected] Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 IT-Zentrum Standort Campus Mitte AIM. ralfpostfix
Quoted 2 lines · Ralf Hildebrandt
The nvidia graphics card in one of my laptops cannot be talked into working with vesafb:
Maybe try vesafb-tng at http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/ .
This is completly rewritten, better and more correct implementation with maany new features. See docs.
It is working for me with nvidia binary drivers for X and vesafb-tng for console.
Please report your success / failure to spock.
Grzegorz Kulewski
Quoted 11 lines · Grzegorz Kulewski
Quoted 2 lines · Ralf Hildebrandt
The nvidia graphics card in one of my laptops cannot be talked into working with vesafb:
Maybe try vesafb-tng at http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/ .
This is completly rewritten, better and more correct implementation with maany new features. See docs.It is working for me with nvidia binary drivers for X and vesafb-tng for console.
vesafb-tng doesn't work with my GeForce2 Go on an Inspiron 8200 if I set it to use maximu resolution (1600x1200). The screen gets all messed up, as if the video mode wasn't set to match the use of the framebuffer.
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(Roger Waters)Another FB Problem (trindentfb)
In reply to Ralf HildebrandtI have a simliar issue with the trindentfb, Is anyone maintaining the trindentfb, so I can work them to resolve this issue???
The trindentfb does respond to the setting of the refresh rate properly. I have an omnibook XE2, with the cyberblade i/7 video. I need to setup the trindentfb to 800x600 with a Horizonatal sync of 35.15 and a fresh rate between 55-65.
These are the settings required for X trident driver also.
Problem has been in all 2.6.x kernels, Just seeing Ralf's message remindend me. vesafb works.