From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com> To: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>, Luca Tettamanti <kronos@people.it>, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:04:54 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1172300694.4109.50.camel@daplas> (raw) In-Reply-To: <cb7bb73a0702230534o4e2c7e9frd5f2b05accf18c05@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:34 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On 2/23/07, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 20:08 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > > No, it doesn't. I've tried all the methods from 640x480 to 1600x1200, > > > and they /all/ come up snowy. This is starting to look queerer and > > > queerer. I've also tried changing vf min and max as you suggested: > > > > Before we proceed, do you agree that the patch will allow you to change > > video modes without disabling DDC support? So this is still a valid > > fix? > > You're right, I hadn't realized that. I can now access all the sizes > from 640 to 1600, so I would say the fix is valid. Okay, thanks. > > > When does your display become snowy? Is the snow constant or does it > > only snow when doing heavy text operations, such as scrolling? > > The snowy is constant and abundant, and it seems to be independent of > video size (640 through 1600) and screen occupation (single prompt > line to fullscreen mc session) and usage. > > > I presume that X's nv driver or vesafb does not exhibit this problem? > > X's nv gives a very clean display, /unless/ I load nvidiafb before: if > I modprobe nvidiafb (it's a module, and it's blacklisted precisely for > this reason), then the screen is very snowy with X's nv too. > Hmm..., I really don't know how to fix this except to look at Xorg's code and look for a difference. Tony
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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com> To: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Luca Tettamanti <kronos@people.it>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:04:54 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1172300694.4109.50.camel@daplas> (raw) In-Reply-To: <cb7bb73a0702230534o4e2c7e9frd5f2b05accf18c05@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:34 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On 2/23/07, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 20:08 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > > No, it doesn't. I've tried all the methods from 640x480 to 1600x1200, > > > and they /all/ come up snowy. This is starting to look queerer and > > > queerer. I've also tried changing vf min and max as you suggested: > > > > Before we proceed, do you agree that the patch will allow you to change > > video modes without disabling DDC support? So this is still a valid > > fix? > > You're right, I hadn't realized that. I can now access all the sizes > from 640 to 1600, so I would say the fix is valid. Okay, thanks. > > > When does your display become snowy? Is the snow constant or does it > > only snow when doing heavy text operations, such as scrolling? > > The snowy is constant and abundant, and it seems to be independent of > video size (640 through 1600) and screen occupation (single prompt > line to fullscreen mc session) and usage. > > > I presume that X's nv driver or vesafb does not exhibit this problem? > > X's nv gives a very clean display, /unless/ I load nvidiafb before: if > I modprobe nvidiafb (it's a module, and it's blacklisted precisely for > this reason), then the screen is very snowy with X's nv too. > Hmm..., I really don't know how to fix this except to look at Xorg's code and look for a difference. Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-24 7:02 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2007-01-28 10:48 [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-01-28 11:05 ` Prakash Punnoor 2007-01-29 0:08 ` Andrew Morton 2007-01-29 0:08 ` Andrew Morton 2007-01-29 0:12 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Dave Airlie 2007-01-29 0:12 ` Dave Airlie 2007-01-29 0:27 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Andrew Morton 2007-01-29 0:27 ` Andrew Morton 2007-01-29 0:29 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Andrew Morton 2007-01-29 0:29 ` Andrew Morton 2007-01-29 0:39 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Dave Airlie 2007-01-29 0:39 ` Dave Airlie 2007-01-29 14:37 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-01-30 20:33 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-01-30 20:33 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-04 20:17 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-04 21:17 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-05 20:18 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-05 20:18 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-05 21:28 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-06 21:22 ` James Simmons 2007-02-06 21:22 ` James Simmons 2007-02-07 23:48 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-07 23:48 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-08 0:19 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-11 18:17 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-11 18:17 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-13 9:25 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-17 18:14 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-17 18:14 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-17 18:46 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-08 17:56 ` James Simmons 2007-02-08 17:56 ` James Simmons 2007-02-07 23:57 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-07 23:57 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-06 20:37 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons 2007-02-06 23:08 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-21 23:43 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-21 23:43 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-22 8:01 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-22 8:40 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-22 8:40 ` Antonino A. Daplas [not found] ` <cb7bb73a0702220548s55380f7fk995726ffd349823b@mail.gmail.com> [not found] ` <1172153358.4306.17.camel@daplas> 2007-02-22 15:55 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-22 16:21 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-22 16:21 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-22 19:08 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-22 23:34 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-22 23:34 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-23 13:34 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-23 13:34 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-24 7:04 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message] 2007-02-24 7:04 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-24 9:16 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-24 9:16 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-24 21:16 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-25 10:26 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-25 10:26 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-25 11:10 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-25 11:10 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-25 13:16 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-25 13:16 ` Giuseppe Bilotta 2007-02-26 12:46 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-22 17:03 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-22 20:39 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-22 20:39 ` Luca Tettamanti 2007-02-22 23:34 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas 2007-02-22 23:34 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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