Re: Re: Re: atyfb, console, kernel 2.6.14 & Sony Vaio C1VE

["Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:16:52PM +0000, Fractallyte wrote:
> Hi
> 
> OK, tried out the 2.6.15.4 kernel.  dmesg:
> 
> 	atyfb: using auxiliary register aperture
> 	atyfb: 3D RAGE Mobility P/M (Mach64 LR, PCI) [0x4c52 rev 0x64]
> 	atyfb: Mach64 BIOS is located at c0000, mapped at c00c0000.
> 	atyfb: BIOS frequency table:
> 	atyfb: PCLK_min_freq 984, PCLK_max_freq 23600, ref_freq 2950, 
> ref_divider 64
> 	atyfb: MCLK_pwd 4200, MCLK_max_freq 8300, XCLK_max_freq 12500, 
> SCLK_freq 5000
> 	atyfb: BIOS contains driver information table.
> 	atyfb: colour active matrix monitor detected: Sharp
> 	atyfb:        id=1, 1024x480 pixels, 262144 colours (LT mode)
> 	atyfb:        supports refresh rates [60], default 60 Hz
> 	atyfb:        LCD CRTC parameters: 42.8044  1024 1048 1184 1344  480 
> 489 495 525
> 	atyfb:                           : 23618 160 1024 24 136 30 480 9 6
> 	atyfb: 8M SDRAM (1:1), 29.498928 MHz XTAL, 236 MHz PLL, 83 Mhz MCLK, 
> 125 MHz XCLK
> 	Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x30
> 	atyfb: fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI
> 
> It's only *seems* to be a success...  The console is correctly set to 
> 128x30, however the timings are apparently not passed from the BIOS to 
> the console driver.  From this point on the screen becomes unreadable 
> and unusable: white blooms from the edges and spreads inward.

IIRC my OmniBook 500 did the same thing in the past. I don't remember 
what (if anything) I did to fix it. I tried to fiddle around with the 
BIOS 'video expansion' option and tried passing various modes to atyfb 
but I just can't reproduce it.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@sci.fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/


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