From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
To: Keith Packard <keith.packard@intel.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: vga16fb: blank screen with Intel GM965/GL960 on HP 2510p notebook
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:58:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080322165817.GD13703@deprecation.cyrius.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206204017.26934.554.camel@koto.keithp.com>
* Keith Packard <keith.packard@intel.com> [2008-03-22 09:40]:
> > The BIOS is ROM F.0A 02/16/2008 and Video BIOS 1471
> That's newer than the one I have; one wonders if they broke something...
Do you think you can try that version?
> Can you use vesafb instead of vga16fb? That should be far more reliable.
vesafb is built into the Debian kernel, so presumably that works.
I've no idea why debian-installer loads vga16fb. Frans, any idea?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-22 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 16:39 vga16fb: blank screen with Intel GM965/GL960 on HP 2510p notebook Martin Michlmayr
2008-03-21 17:03 ` Keith Packard
2008-03-22 11:25 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-03-22 16:40 ` Keith Packard
2008-03-22 16:58 ` Martin Michlmayr [this message]
2008-03-22 19:35 ` Frans Pop
2008-03-22 23:27 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-03-23 1:26 ` Frans Pop
2008-03-23 9:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-03-24 12:51 ` Frans Pop
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