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SubjectRe: Blank Screen in 2.6.0


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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