Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:07:12 +0100 (CET) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0 |
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, James Simmons wrote:
> > > 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. >
Ok, thank you for the explanation.
> > 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. >
Great, as soon as those make it into Linus' tree or -mm I'll give them a test run. Or if you could point me at a location where I can grab them from I'd be happy to test them even sooner.
/Jesper Juhl
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