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2.6.0-test1 Vesa fb and Nvidia

DISCUSSION David St.Clair 3 participants 5 messages Jul 16, 2003 – Jul 17, 2003

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I don't know if this is a hardware specific bug or I just don't have something configured right.

If I try to boot using vga=792 (which works with 2.4.18) I get a blank screen (but hard drive is actively booting). If I don't use vga= at all, I get a normal boot without the penguin logo.

I am using Redhat 9 /w NVidia Geforce 4 420 64Mb.

CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_LOGO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y

I am currently using the RPMS from (7/14/2003)
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/

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Quoted 2 lines · David St.Clair

I don't know if this is a hardware specific bug or I just don't have something configured right.

2.6.0-test1-mm1, Dell C840 laptop with a Geforce4 440Go.

I do *NOT* have 'CONFIG_FB_VGA16' set, but *do* have 'CONFIG_VIDEO_VESA'.

With this, 'vga=794' gets me a small font and a penguin on boot, the NVidia binary driver works fine under X after the minion.de patch, switching back and forth works well, and life is generally good.

Mode 792 is in the VESA bios mode range: from Documentation/svga.txt:

0x0200 to 0x08ff - VESA BIOS modes. The ID is a VESA mode ID increased by

        0x0100. All VESA modes should be autodetected and shown on the menu.

....
CONFIG_VIDEO_VESA - enables autodetection of VESA modes. If it doesn't work
on your machine (or displays a "Error: Scanning of VESA modes failed" message), you can switch it off and report as a bug.

Try turning that on?

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I have also tried using CONFIG_FB_VGA16 as a module (so it's not loaded by default) and I get the same results.

In /arch/i386/boot/video.S
CONFIG_VIDEO_VESA is defined. CONFIG_VIDEO_SVGA is the only one not defined.

Setting it in my .config file didn't seem to work. (I may be doing something dumb here...) It resulted in a warning message ".config:1318:
trying to assign nonexistent symbol VIDEO_VESA"

Trying to boot using vga=794 didn't help either.

I have the binary NVIDIA driver working. I used the 2.5/2.6 patches.

Thanks for your help,

David St.Clair

Quoted 22 lines · On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 16:33, [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 2 lines · David St.Clair

I don't know if this is a hardware specific bug or I just don't have something configured right.

2.6.0-test1-mm1, Dell C840 laptop with a Geforce4 440Go.

I do *NOT* have 'CONFIG_FB_VGA16' set, but *do* have 'CONFIG_VIDEO_VESA'.

With this, 'vga=794' gets me a small font and a penguin on boot, the NVidia binary driver works fine under X after the minion.de patch, switching back and forth works well, and life is generally good.

Mode 792 is in the VESA bios mode range: from Documentation/svga.txt:

0x0200 to 0x08ff - VESA BIOS modes. The ID is a VESA mode ID increased by

        0x0100. All VESA modes should be autodetected and shown on the menu.

....
CONFIG_VIDEO_VESA - enables autodetection of VESA modes. If it doesn't work
on your machine (or displays a "Error: Scanning of VESA modes failed" message), you can switch it off and report as a bug.

Try turning that on?

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I don't know if this is a hardware specific bug or I just don't have something configured right.

If I try to boot using vga=792 (which works with 2.4.18) I get a blank screen (but hard drive is actively booting). If I don't use vga= at all, I get a normal boot without the penguin logo.

I am using Redhat 9 /w NVidia Geforce 4 420 64Mb.

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CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_LOGO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y

Where is CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y ???

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That was my problem. Thank you very much!

David St.Clair

Quoted 22 lines · James Simmons
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I don't know if this is a hardware specific bug or I just don't have something configured right.

If I try to boot using vga=792 (which works with 2.4.18) I get a blank screen (but hard drive is actively booting). If I don't use vga= at all, I get a normal boot without the penguin logo.

I am using Redhat 9 /w NVidia Geforce 4 420 64Mb.

Quoted 11 lines

CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_LOGO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y

Where is CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y ???