Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:44:45 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0 |
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> The good news is that I no longer get just a black screen at boot.
Yeah!!!
> The bad news is that it still doesn't work quite right.
I expected that. Newer Nvidia cards are not properly supported.
> No matter what mode I try to boot in I always get the same, and it's as if > the image is drawn only on every second scanline. One result of this is > that I can only visually see approximately the top half of what I'm > supposed to see - like, if I type in something in the shell, then I have > to press enter several times untill enough lines have passed for the text > to reach the top of the screen and thus is actually visible. Another > result of this is ofcourse that what I /can/ see doesn't look very good.
Sounds like a double scan issue. As for it always going to 640x480 that is a bug in the driver which is also in the 2.4.X tree.
> Also, after starting X (using the "nv" driver, not a fb X server) - if I > switch back to a text console then the screen is completely garbled - I > can switch back to X just fine though.
Try using the UseFBDev flag for teh X server. That usually helps.
> rejects, but I tried building it anyway - it wouldn't compile. So I went > back to a clean 2.6.0 to which the patch applied flawlessly.
Yeah I made the patch against 2.6.0. I will update it soon.
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