From: Frank N. <fra...@gm...> - 2001-10-18 09:54:10
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On 17 Oct 2001, Bruno Clermont wrote: Many thanks Bruno, a bad information is better then nothing. I will check out the XFree86 framebuffer driver. Frank > I switched to a SVGA framebuffer and used XFree86 framebuffer driver... > Slow as hell, but better than nothing, especialy for non-gaming use. > > I tried a vanilla 2.4.9 couple of months later, hoping to see a > difference. It still fade to black and need a reboot. > > I finally stop using the laptop and didn't tried until then. > > On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 09:05, Frank Neuber wrote: > Hi Bruno and all fbdev gurus, > I have exactly the same problem with my COMPAQ Presario laptop. > After loading the module "atyfb" the screen go black and only display some > colored pixels at the bottom line :-(. > The X-Display is then also broken ... > I did my tests wit the 2.4.9 kernel. The patch atyfb-new-20010117.diff > don't work with 2.4.9 kernel. I think the patch is present in this > kernel version. > > lspci: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage P/M > Mobility AGP 2x (rev 64) > > lspci -nvvv > > 01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4c4d (rev 64) > Subsystem: 0e11:b11b > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- > ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Latency: 66 (2000ns min), cache line size 08 > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 > Region 0: Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] > Region 1: I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] > Region 2: Memory at f4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0 > Status: RQ=255 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2 > Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> > Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA > PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > > Did you solve your fbdev problem? > At last I have the same questions: > is it a know problem by you? > if not, are you interested to fix it? > if yes, how can i be usefull? |