From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Parag Warudkar Subject: Re: 2.5.70 - Blank Screen with VESA VGA Framebuffer Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:20:16 +0530 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <002201c33228$12566b80$016f41db@Lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from smtp2.vsnl.net ([203.200.235.232]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19R2Eg-0007Gg-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:01:50 -0700 Received: from Lappy ([127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.vsnl.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with SMTP id <0HGG008WGDBM25@smtp2.vsnl.net> for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:20:16 +0530 (IST) Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: nsouch@free.fr Cc: geert@linux-m68k.org, jsimmons@infradead.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jochen@panix.com Sorry - Last time I sent the message encoded/html which appeared garbled on the list.. Thanx to Jochen Roth for pointing it out. Original Message...> Yeah, exact same card. I will try the LCD patch, does X work with it? For me the reason for using FB is X, it wont work otherwise. Why? I don't know.. Will take this up with X-Pert..! P -----Original Message----- From: Nicolas Souchu [mailto:nsouch@free.fr] Sent: Sat 6/14/2003 04:55 To: Parag Warudkar Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven; James Simmons; Linux Frame Buffer Device Development Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] 2.5.70 - Blank Screen with VESA VGA Framebuffer On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:06:56PM +0530, Parag Warudkar wrote: > No. Atyfb hasn't worked for me in 2.4.20. If I use video=atyfb, I get a > corrupted white screen which is beyond my capabilities to describe!! :) My experience is almost the same with the following board: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x +(rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] I/O ports at c000 [size=256] Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0 Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1 The PCI id is Ox4d4c, and you? e.g. I got the famous encrypted white screen with at least 2.4.9 but now with 2.5.69 + LCD patch posted recently, it's much better. I get half the screen duplicated verticaly but with correct resolution. I guess this is a modesetting problem? > The graphics chip is ATI RAGE Mobility M1(LT) AGP2X - a MACH64 Derivate > with 8Mb RAM.. For X, 3D acceleration (DRI, direct rendering) works > with a Mach64 branch of XFree86. > (http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/mach64*-*) You should try the 2.5.69+patch... Note that I had to disable everything else but the ATY driver (VESA, VGA16, framebuffer virtual). Nicholas -- Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5