Re: Re: Re: atyfb, console, kernel 2.6.14 & Sony Vaio C1VE
From: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Date: 2006-03-12 22:44:02
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 07:04:24PM +0000, Fractallyte wrote:
On 3 Mar 2006, at 15:01, Ville Syrjälä wrote:quoted
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It's only *seems* to be a success... The console is correctly set to 128x30, however the timings are apparently not passed from the BIOS to the console driver. From this point on the screen becomes unreadable and unusable: white blooms from the edges and spreads inward.IIRC my OmniBook 500 did the same thing in the past. I don't remember what (if anything) I did to fix it. I tried to fiddle around with the BIOS 'video expansion' option and tried passing various modes to atyfb but I just can't reproduce it. -- Ville Syrjälä syrjala@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/Unfortunately, the BIOS options on a Vaio C1VE are rather limited! I'm still trying various atyfb options...
I was looking for the OB500 service manual and I stumbled on a HP forum thread discussing similar problems. It seems the "screen going white" problem may be caused by oxidation of the screen cable connectors. Here is the full thread: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=121645 -- Ville Syrjälä syrjala@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642