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

[Fractallyte <fractallyte@csi.com>]

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...

Amir


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