[Bug 256276] New: Kernel framebuffer does no longer support higher resolutions than 800x600
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 Summary: Kernel framebuffer does no longer support higher resolutions than 800x600 Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 2 Platform: 64bit OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: one_way@online.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Several weeks ago I noticed that my factory tree installation would no longer start with the graphical bootsplash, but complained that an illegal VGA mode number was given. However, I up to then had booted with "vga=0x31a", which means 1280x1024@64k, without the slightest problem. This is still the case as of kernel-2.6.20.2-4. As a graphical bootsplash is an essential part of the openSUSE experience (note: :-) ), I today looked a bit into it and "hwinfo" gave me the enlightening hint that the framebuffer device would - for no obvious reasons - only support 800x600@64k - more colors would even further reduce the available resolution. And voila, with a "vga=0x314" the framebuffer worked again, albeit with a less-than-perfect resolution. The hardware is a 64bit AMD64 machine with a NVidia GeForce 4 AGP card. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 ------- Comment #1 from one_way@online.de 2007-03-26 11:25 MST ------- This problem seems also to affect the X.org configuration as provided by SaX2: Here the maximum possible resolution is also only 800x600 (#257323), though a manual change of /etc/X11/xorg.conf re-enables the higher resolutions. Maybe some communication problem between the monitor and the OS (worked flawlessly for years before, however)? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 gregkh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |one_way@online.de ------- Comment #2 from gregkh@novell.com 2007-03-29 11:24 MST ------- Can you update your kernel to the latest version 2.6.21-rcsomething and let us know if that fixes the issue or not? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 ------- Comment #3 from one_way@online.de 2007-03-29 11:36 MST ------- As of kernel-default-2.6.21_rc5-2 it does not look like the issue is fixed :-(: -------- linux:~ # hwinfo --monitor
bios.4.3: ddc infoc000:2bf5: 31 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE! c000:2bf5: 31 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE! 29: None 00.0: 10000 Monitor [Created at fb.71] Unique ID: rdCR.EY_qmtb9YY0 Hardware Class: monitor Model: "Generic Monitor" Vendor: "Generic" Device: "Monitor" Resolution: 800x600@75Hz Driver Info #0: Max. Resolution: 800x600 Vert. Sync Range: 50-90 Hz Hor. Sync Range: 31-48 kHz Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 ------- Comment #4 from sndirsch@novell.com 2007-03-29 11:43 MST ------- Hmm ... isn't "hwinfo --framebuffer" the correct command to list the available framebuffer modes? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 ------- Comment #5 from one_way@online.de 2007-03-29 11:46 MST ------- I'm still learning ;) - here you go: linux:~ # hwinfo --framebuffer 02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer [Created at bios.447] Unique ID: rdCR.JKCVzVZiBgE Hardware Class: framebuffer Model: "NVidia NV28 Board" Vendor: "NVidia Corporation" Device: "NV28 Board" SubVendor: "NVidia" SubDevice: Revision: "Chip Rev A0" Memory Size: 128 MB Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xc7ffffff (rw) Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits Mode 0x030e: 320x200 (+640), 16 bits Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits Mode 0x0330: 320x200 (+320), 8 bits Mode 0x0331: 320x400 (+320), 8 bits Mode 0x0332: 320x400 (+640), 16 bits Mode 0x0333: 320x400 (+1280), 24 bits Mode 0x0334: 320x240 (+320), 8 bits Mode 0x0335: 320x240 (+640), 16 bits Mode 0x0336: 320x240 (+1280), 24 bits Mode 0x033d: 640x400 (+1280), 16 bits Mode 0x033e: 640x400 (+2560), 24 bits Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 one_way@online.de changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|one_way@online.de | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 ------- Comment #6 from sndirsch@novell.com 2007-03-29 11:53 MST ------- Ok. Problem still exists. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 sndirsch@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |snwint@novell.com, kkeil@novell.com ------- Comment #7 from sndirsch@novell.com 2007-03-31 15:05 MST ------- Not sure, if this is a general problem. I remember a similar bug some time ago, which occurs only on some NVIDIA TNT/TNT2 cards depending on the card's VBIOS. IIRC Karsten reported it and Steffen fixed/workarounded it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 ------- Comment #8 from snwint@novell.com 2007-04-02 04:22 MST ------- No, that's a VBIOS-only thing. Alex, maybe you changed some BIOS settings? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 ------- Comment #9 from one_way@online.de 2007-04-02 09:55 MST ------- No, definitely not, I didn't fiddle with the BIOS for months ;). Only thing I changed with the computer was keeping up with openSUSE factory packages. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 ------- Comment #10 from sndirsch@novell.com 2007-05-04 20:36 MST ------- Can't reproduce this neither with a GF4 MX (NV17/NV18?) nor with a GF 4 Ti 4600 (NV 25/28?) with Alpha3plus. So this is no general problem. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 sndirsch@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |one_way@online.de ------- Comment #11 from sndirsch@novell.com 2007-05-05 06:12 MST ------- If you're interested into sending the card to us (Nürnberg, Germany) for investigation, let us know. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 one_way@online.de changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|one_way@online.de | ------- Comment #12 from one_way@online.de 2007-05-06 12:17 MST ------- Removing my gfx card would render my only computer unusable for some time, so I'd like to avoid this ;). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 ------- Comment #13 from sndirsch@novell.com 2007-05-06 12:31 MST ------- We can talk about a replacement for this time (one of those in comment #10). :-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 ------- Comment #14 from one_way@online.de 2007-05-08 11:50 MST ------- After some discussion with the responsible SuSE maintainers (thanks a lot) I more or less stumbled over the solution to the problem: Nothing in my computer setup has changed, but what I didn't think of was my new TV. The new TV is, like the previous one, connected to the composite video output of the graphics board adapter box. Obviously the new TV causes the graphics card to automatically reduce the resolutions to the more TV compatible ones. For some reason beyond my understanding, this didn't happen with the old TV. So as far as I concerned this bug can be closed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256276 sndirsch@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID ------- Comment #15 from sndirsch@novell.com 2007-05-08 12:07 MST ------- OMG. ==> INVALID -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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