Re: framebuffer with nvidia 7600GS shows corrupt screen

[thunder7@xs4all.nl]

From: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Date: Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:57:16AM -0700
> jurriaan wrote:
> >I've swapped my nvidia 6600 for a 7600GS, because it has dual-link DVI
> >output. That broke my framebuffer!
> >
> >If I boot like this:
> >
> >Command line: root=/dev/md2 video=nvidiafb:640x480-32@60 atkbd.softrepeat=1
> >
> >I see this:
> >
> >nvidiafb: Device ID: 10de0392 
> >nvidiafb: CRTC0 analog found
> >nvidiafb: CRTC1 analog not found
> >nvidiafb: EDID found from BUS1
> 
> Mmm, and what you have connected to that dual-link DVI output?  It looks 
> like that framebuffer believes that you've connected analog monitor to 
> it, which I'm not sure is quite correct given your note that you 
> upgraded to get dual link DVI.  You may want to hardcode values for 
> FlatPanel & CRTCNumber into NVCommonSetup instead of allowing 
> autodetection...

I haven't yet - a plain old CRT monitor is attached currently. I haven't
bought a LCD yet. The messages seem correct. The monitor is attached via
a dvi->vga15 converter, of which I've tried two known working ones.

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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