On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 09:39 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Random lines flickering in the screen when i use the keyboard in Xorg > > (tried the default Xorg from sid and the experimental 6.9 packages) it's > > really anoying and I'm afraid they are damaging the panel in someway. > > It's probably not damaging the panel... Do you use an fbdev driver like > rivafb ? Does it work better if you don't (use offb, that is > video=ofonly on the kernel command line) ? Also make sure your X.org is > configured to use the "nv" driver.
Yes i was using the nv driver and the rivafb from 2.6.13.4, I tried video=ofonly with the same behavoir before I installed ubuntu (I wanted to confirm it worked there since a coworker has the same laptop and the display worked fine in ubuntu) tomorrow I will reinstall debian and try some new things, like the xscreensaver downgrade Antonio suggested (how the hell can xscreensaver be causing that, I don't know) then maybe installing the ubuntu xorg in debian and if that work compile xorg to try to identify the patch that fixes things. > > dmasound doesn't work, just the snd-powermac alsa driver and that gives > > a very ugly sound output :-(. > > What do you mean by "very ugly" ? snd-powermac generally works better > than dmasound. Well it sounds bad, let's say very "noisy" i already tried ajusting all the channels in alsamixer but I never get a confortable sound (using beep-media-player & xmms alsa output). > > The most annoying thing for me: The laptop doesn't suspend at all, I > > still have my old ibook g3 with a radeon m7 and the sleep support is a > > feature I'm very attached too. I'm a experienced C developer (no kernel > > experience however) and would like to try to work on this, but I need > > some pointers (Ben? :-), as I understad the problem with the sleep > > support is the rivafb module not supporting the resume operation. Is > > there any documentation on the chip ? refence code ? ways to reverse > > enginer the os x driver behavior? (tools and methods). I would really, > > really, really love to have this working. > > The problem is that there are no specs whatsoever from nvidia, nothing > at all, and the MacOS X driver afaik isn't an "ndrv" (thus can't be > "spied" using my old ndrver tool) So we have no hope ? :'-( Nothing ? Nada ? no ugly hack ? no dirty workaround ? maybe not shutting down the nvidia chip completly ? something ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
