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List:       linux-fbdev-devel
Subject:    Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] some nvidiafb test results
From:       "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas () hotpop ! com>
Date:       2004-12-12 18:59:55
Message-ID: 200412130259.57008.adaplas () hotpop ! com
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On Sunday 12 December 2004 19:04, John Kinsella wrote:
> But when I test nvidiafb on my Toshiba Satellite laptop with 32Mb GeForce4
> 420Go, things are not so good : rivafb works OK for the last few 2.6.x
> releases, but nvidiafb does not. With nvidiafb, I get a display shifted so
> that the first column appears over near the right hand side of screen. The
> first 4 columns also appear twice e.g. for login prompt "Toshiba login", I
> see "ToshTosh login" over near the right margin of the screen. Using fbset
> to display the resolution timings, I get different results between nvidiafb
> & rivafb.
> NB: no EDID is available for the LCD, so I usually pass in a mode like
> video=rivafb:1024x768-60

Can you turn off debugging in both rivafb and nviidiafb?  Then, enable debugging
in drivers/video/fbmon.c by changing this line:

#undef DEBUG
to
#define DEBUG.

Then send me the dmesg for both nvidiafb and rivafb.

Thanks.

Tony




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