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

[Fractallyte <fractallyte@csi.com>]

On 26 Feb 2006, at 21:07, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:

>
> Fractallyte wrote:
>
> Putting back Ville and fbdev-devel back on the CC list.
>
>> Thanks for the quick reply!
>>
>> I tried what you suggested, but it has no effect.  The interesting 
>> thing
>> is that the BIOS timings and geometry work perfectly in Xorg.  I've
>> tried using SVGATextMode and FBSet using these values, but neither 
>> works.
>>
>> Could it be that the display is correct (it fills up the screen, after
>> all - just stretched out), but the console just doesn't recognise it?
>
> I doubt it.  If you can run X over fbdev and you get a perfect display,
> then I would agree with you that this is a bug in the console code.

I suddenly remembered: I CAN'T run X over atyfb.  I just get a blank 
(sometimes corrupted) screen.  To run X I have to turn off atyfb in 
grub.

Amir



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