Re: 2.6.14-mm2

[Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

On 12/11/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Yup, thanks.  Yesterday Ben reported:
>
> > not 100% sure what's up, but current -git has funny breakage with
> > nvidiafb on an iMac G5 I have here. The mode seems correct but the
> > console uses one line too much of text.
> >
> > That is, the total height of the screen isn't a multiple of the height
> > of a line of text. It seems that fbcon is rounding up instead of down,
> > thus the "last" line is basically going offscreen (about 2 or 3 pixels
> > visible, the rest is offscreen).
> >
>
> Which looks sort-of similar.
>
> And Tony replied:
>
> > What does stty -a say, and fbset -i?
>

debian:~# stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 48; columns 128; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z;
rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl
ixon ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon -iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop
-echoprt -echoctl echoke

debian:~# fbset -i

mode "1024x768-60"
    # D: 65.003 MHz, H: 48.365 kHz, V: 60.006 Hz
    geometry 1024 768 1024 32767 8
    timings 15384 160 24 29 3 136 6
    accel true
    rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0
endmode

Frame buffer device information:
    Name        : NV32
    Address     : 0xe8000000
    Size        : 134217728
    Type        : PACKED PIXELS
    Visual      : PSEUDOCOLOR
    XPanStep    : 8
    YPanStep    : 1
    YWrapStep   : 0
    LineLength  : 1024
    MMIO Address: 0xf6000000
    MMIO Size   : 16777216
    Accelerator : Unknown (45)

fbset recognise my gpu as NV32. lspci show it as NV34 (0000:01:00.0
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
(rev a1)
). According to
http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/45.23/NVIDIA_Driver_Release_Notes_v45.23.pdf
it should be NV34.

Regards,
Michal Piotrowski