From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andreas Werner <wernerandy@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Black screen with GMA500 driver on Atom E680 (invalid VBT signature)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:52:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131114135209.0a8a15ff@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131113183418.GA1593@thinkpad.fritz.box>
> My question now is, is it a bug in the driver or in the VGA Bios?
>
> I´ve checked the VGA bios and did a hex dump but there is really no "$VBT" string.
> On an Atom Gen1 CPU with intel GMA500 Graphic there is the string in the VGA BIOS.
> But if i create the VGA BIOS for intel Atom E680 which has a GMA600 Graphic
> there is no string.
>
> Does anybody of you running the GMA500 driver with and Atom E680 without having this
> problem? Or does anybody know how to get this string into the VGA BIOS?
E680 I believe will try and use the other style of parsing. I never got
my hands on one to confirm that but in general E6xx seems to use
Moorestown style tables instead and you'll only get support for some
outputs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-14 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-13 18:34 Black screen with GMA500 driver on Atom E680 (invalid VBT signature) Andreas Werner
2013-11-14 13:52 ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2013-11-14 15:32 ` Patrik Jakobsson
2013-11-14 18:25 ` Andreas Werner
2013-11-14 20:57 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2013-11-16 9:28 ` Andreas Werner
2013-11-18 13:59 ` One Thousand Gnomes
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