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PATCH New Paul Mundt 1 participant 1 message Jan 9, 2008 Framebuffer layer

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PATCH 1/1 fb: nvidiafb: Try harder at initial mode setting.

The current nvidiafb_check_var() simply bails out if the selected mode is out of range of the panel dimensions. A good question would be why the bogus mode is being selected in the first place -- the panel dimensions that are read back are certainly bogus, but alas, I have no idea where to even begin looking at the i2c/EDID/DDC mess:

nvidiafb: Device ID: 10de0165
nvidiafb: CRTC0 analog not found
nvidiafb: CRTC1 analog not found
nvidiafb: EDID found from BUS1
nvidiafb: CRTC 0 is currently programmed for DFP
nvidiafb: Using DFP on CRTC 0
nvidiafb: Panel size is 1280 x 1024
nvidiafb: Panel is TMDS
nvidiafb: unable to setup MTRR
nvidiafb: Flat panel dithering disabled
nvidiafb: PCI nVidia NV16 framebuffer (64MB @ 0xC0000000)

In my .config I presently have:

CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y
CONFIG_FB_DDC=y
CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y

I've not tried fiddling with these options, as I haven't the vaguest idea what I should be looking at.

As a workaround, simply groveling for a new mode based on the probed dimensions seems to work ok. While it would be nice to debug this further and sort out why the panel information is bogus, I think it's still worth retrying the mode based on the panel information at hand as a last-ditch effort, rather than simply bailing out completely.

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 drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c +20 -2
index 30e14eb..74517b1 100644
@@ -849,9 +849,27 @@ static int nvidiafb_check_var(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var,
 	if (!mode_valid && info->monspecs.modedb_len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/*
+	 * If we're on a flat panel, check if the mode is outside of the
+	 * panel dimensions. If so, cap it and try for the next best mode
+	 * before bailing out.
+	 */
 	if (par->fpWidth && par->fpHeight && (par->fpWidth < var->xres ||
-					      par->fpHeight < var->yres))
-		return -EINVAL;
+					      par->fpHeight < var->yres)) {
+		const struct fb_videomode *mode;
+
+		var->xres = par->fpWidth;
+		var->yres = par->fpHeight;
+
+		mode = fb_find_best_mode(var, &info->modelist);
+		if (!mode) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR PFX "mode out of range of flat "
+			       "panel dimensions\n");
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+
+		fb_videomode_to_var(var, mode);
+	}
 
 	if (var->yres_virtual < var->yres)
 		var->yres_virtual = var->yres;

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