From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264457AbTL3HDO (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 02:03:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264450AbTL3HDO (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 02:03:14 -0500 Received: from smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.84]:31826 "HELO smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264457AbTL3HDM (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 02:03:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF1232E.3070401@sbcglobal.net> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 01:03:10 -0600 From: Wes Janzen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031219 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Molina CC: Norman Diamond , dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0 References: <007101c3cdbc$046a58d0$2fee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <00d401c3ce7a$a302fd80$98ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thomas Molina wrote: >On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Norman Diamond wrote: > > > >> ... > > >I've had problems at various times during 2.5 with a number of >card-specific framebuffer drivers so I've backed off to only using the >VESA framebuffer driver. Maybe the connection is which framebuffer driver >is used. > > I've had the same problem. I've tried using radeonfb and it's never worked yet since 2.5.69. In 2.6.0, no matter what mode I select, I get a horizontal frequency of 140kHz and a ~90Hz vertical sync. My monitor blanks and pops up the on-screen menu with the horizontal frequency high-lighted in red. My monitor supports up to 110kHz horizontal according to my X log. I compiled just the vesafb in as well, but it does the exact same thing. It doesn't matter what values or modes I put in the vga/video parameter. Only the text mode works now, and after only 2 days uptime I've noticed I no longer have the full vertical screen. When I type, random text or colored/flashing blocks appear in the bottom (roughly) 1/5th of the screen. Actually, anytime I run an ncurse app in my console, it gets smaller. Now my console only occupies 1/2 the screen, but it doesn't seem to get any smaller than that. I'm using the boot parameter "vga=0x132". My point is maybe your screen isn't blank, but rather the horizontal frequency is out of your monitor's range? Certainly, something has changed, because with 2.6.0-test11 I was running "vga=0x31B video=vesafb:ywrap" and it worked great, whereas now it doesn't work at all with any fb modes. -Wes-