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Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 16:12:32 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Nvidiafb issues on Inspiron 8100 On 5/25/07, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@...il.com> wrote: > 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. You know, I disabled Nvidia's DDC stuff and enabled firmware EDID again and it started working fine, even without video=nvidiafb:1600x1200MR on the command line that I had for a long time. So it works fine now. Would you oppode adding dmi check for inspiron 8100 to automatically disable nvidia i2c support at runtime? -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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