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

["Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 07:04:24PM +0000, Fractallyte wrote:
> 
> On 3 Mar 2006, at 15:01, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> 
> >>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/
> 
> Unfortunately, the BIOS options on a Vaio C1VE are rather limited!  I'm 
> still trying various atyfb options...

I was looking for the OB500 service manual and I stumbled on a HP forum 
thread discussing similar problems. It seems the "screen going white" 
problem may be caused by oxidation of the screen cable connectors.

Here is the full thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=121645

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


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