Re: 2.1.107 & hosed fb on intel

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
27 Jun 1998 20:37:21 +0200


Doug Rohrer <dtr2@twinlights.org> writes:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, James Michael Mastros wrote:
>
> >
> > I'd say that this is enough to establish a pattern. Is anybody getting
> > black-on-black from vgafb who _isn't_ using a s3 or s3v?
> >
> > -=- James Mastros
> > --
> > True mastery is knowing enough to bullshit the rest.
> > -=- Me
>
> I have an OEM STB Velocity 128 (Riva128 chipset) which claims very
> specifically to be VESA 2.0 compliant. I get black on black and then a
> lockup as well (this with either vesafb or vgafb). Is there somewhere we
> can stick some printk's in the vesafb or vgafb code to try to investigate
> this further? I did get some entries in my messages file once (out of
> about 10 bootups).

Just to add an datapoint,

A friend of me has the black-on-black problem with a Mach64.

-Andi

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