From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271076AbTGPVQs (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:16:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271133AbTGPVQs (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:16:48 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com ([24.93.67.83]:15772 "EHLO ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271076AbTGPVQa (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:16:30 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1 Vesa fb and Nvidia From: "David St.Clair" To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200307162033.h6GKXTup002619@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <1058386396.3710.4.camel@localhost> <200307162033.h6GKXTup002619@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1058391079.2471.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 16 Jul 2003 17:31:20 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have also tried using CONFIG_FB_VGA16 as a module (so it's not loaded by default) and I get the same results. In /arch/i386/boot/video.S CONFIG_VIDEO_VESA is defined. CONFIG_VIDEO_SVGA is the only one not defined. Setting it in my .config file didn't seem to work. (I may be doing something dumb here...) It resulted in a warning message ".config:1318: trying to assign nonexistent symbol VIDEO_VESA" Trying to boot using vga=794 didn't help either. I have the binary NVIDIA driver working. I used the 2.5/2.6 patches. Thanks for your help, David St.Clair On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 16:33, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:13:16 EDT, "David St.Clair" said: > > I don't know if this is a hardware specific bug or I just don't have > > something configured right. > > 2.6.0-test1-mm1, Dell C840 laptop with a Geforce4 440Go. > > I do *NOT* have 'CONFIG_FB_VGA16' set, but *do* have 'CONFIG_VIDEO_VESA'. > > With this, 'vga=794' gets me a small font and a penguin on boot, > the NVidia binary driver works fine under X after the minion.de patch, > switching back and forth works well, and life is generally good. > > Mode 792 is in the VESA bios mode range: from Documentation/svga.txt: > > 0x0200 to 0x08ff - VESA BIOS modes. The ID is a VESA mode ID increased by > 0x0100. All VESA modes should be autodetected and shown on the menu. > .... > CONFIG_VIDEO_VESA - enables autodetection of VESA modes. If it doesn't work > on your machine (or displays a "Error: Scanning of VESA modes failed" message), > you can switch it off and report as a bug. > > Try turning that on?