Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:02:35 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0 |
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> I've found that using "rivafb" does not work with my Geforce3, and from > talking to various people on IRC about it I get the impression that rivafb > is broken for any card newer than Geforce2. "vesafb" though works quite > well with never NVidia cards.
The core code to the rivafb is lifted from a older X windows driver. I would need to grab the latest X server code which is very different.
> If I build my kernels with "rivafb" enabled I get a blank screen as well, > but using "vesafb" all is fine (so is just plain vga=normal or > vga=extended, but I prefer the fb console :)
Fixed in my latest patches.
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