[Linux-fbdev-users] trying to start using nvidiafb

[Gildas B. <gil...@gm...>]

Hello,

I'm quite new to the framebuffer but I've been using the vesa fb driver
for several weeks and launched X on it with success

I would like to try nvidiafb now but I have the following problems:
I can see for a very brief instant a page that looks like the penguin we
all know with some normal console messages but it vanishes immediately
and then nothing is displayed...

Are there some parameters I could have wrong?
There is no nvidiafb file in the kernel Documentation directory so
is there a place to know options for the nvidia fb driver?

finally I could boot a console with nvidiafb by specifying
video=nvidiafb:800x600 at startup but
- it still doesn't work on other resolutions
- if I change resolution from 800 600 to 1024 768 with fbset it does
something but the result is bad. If I precise depth 32 it's better but
the screen is cut in half

BTW, I'm using vanilla kernel 2.6.13.4, my card (as reported by lspci)
is a GE force FX Go5200 and I'm on a laptop (with lcd screen then)

Gildas