On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 08:26 +0200, Knut Petersen wrote: > Hi Nathanael, > > >>I have a VIA EPIA board. It has a built in Trident graphics adapter. The > >>problem I'm having is that when I try to get it to run, the lcd OSD > >>throws up an error message about 'Out Of Range', sometimes blanking the > >>screen, sometimes not. > >> > >> > >> > > What kind of Epia? I suppose Epia 800 or Epia 5000. If that´s the case, > disable > tridentfb and enable the cyblafb driver included in the 2.6.14-rc kernels. > > >>mode "1024x768-76" > >> # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz > >> geometry 1024 768 1024 768 16 > >> timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 > >> rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0 > >>endmode > >> > >> > >> > Add > video=cyblafb:1024x768,bpp=16,ref=76 > to the kernel command line. If that does not help immediately, use > video=cyblafb:1024x768,bpp=16,ref=76,verbosity=2 vga=0x317 > and send complete dmesg output after booting as well as lspci -vv output. > > There will be a lot of debugging output, be sure to use a big enough > buffer size for kernel messages. > > >>All of those (regardless of depth (8,16,24) all produce 'out of range' > >>problems. > >> > >> > >> > tridentfb timing calcualtion was broken in 2.4 kernels and is broken for > 2.6 kernels, > at least for the cyberblade/i1.
Well thank you SOO much. I'm not done yet, but those messages are gone. I will continue testing & working on this, if I run into more problems or bugs I'll post any feedback/information I have. -- Nathanael D. Noblet Gnat Solutions, Inc http://www.gnat.ca/ T 250.385.4613 C 250.383.4613 _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
