Re: Nvidiafb issues on Inspiron 8100

From: Antonino A. Daplas
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 17:42:21 EST


On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 01:37 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Antonino,
>
> I am having the following issues on my Dell Inspiron 8100. They are not
> new but I just got around to report them.
>
> With CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C I get 1600x1200 resolution but pixels
> "swarming" and it is unuseable. There are following messages in
> dmesg (note complaints from i2c):

Looks like an EDID block not accessible by i2c and only available
through the BIOS. And it's probably broken too.

Can you #define DEBUG in drivers/video/fbmon.c, enable
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID, the post your dmesg?

For now, the best you can do is disable i2c support and add:

video=nvidiafb:1600x1200@60

in your boot line.

Tony



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