Commit db6778db authored Aug 08, 2005 by Antonino Daplas Committed by Linus Torvalds Aug 08, 2005

[PATCH] nvidiafb: Fix initial display corruption on certain laptops

Reported by:Vincent Fortier (Bugzilla Bug 4768)

"At boot time the screen appears moved to the mid right portion of the actual
video pannel making the end of the line appears at the left edge... It simply
looks like moved half way to the right"

His particular hardware has a display with an unusual dimension (1920x1200) but
unfortunately has no EDID block. None of the entries in the global mode
database is correct for this particular display, and it particularly has
difficulty scaling up 640x480 (the default startup mode of nvidiafb) to
1920x1200 which causes the above described problem.

1, Add 1920x1200 to the global mode database.

2. Let nvidiafb base the startup mode from the flatpanel dimensions only if the
EDID block is absent, no boot mode parameter is specified by the user, and
a flatpanel/LCD display is attached.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 0f0767c6

drivers/video/modedb.c

+5 −0

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		@@ -246,6 +246,11 @@ static const struct fb_videomode modedb[] = {
		/* 480x300 @ 72 Hz, 48.0 kHz hsync */
		NULL, 72, 480, 300, 33386, 40, 24, 11, 19, 80, 3,
		0, FB_VMODE_DOUBLE
		}, {
		/* 1920x1200 @ 60 Hz, 74.5 Khz hsync */
		NULL, 60, 1920, 1200, 5177, 128, 336, 1, 38, 208, 3,
		FB_SYNC_HOR_HIGH_ACT \| FB_SYNC_VERT_HIGH_ACT,
		FB_VMODE_NONINTERLACED
		},
		};

drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c

+7 −0

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		@@ -1324,6 +1324,13 @@ static int __devinit nvidia_set_fbinfo(struct fb_info *info)

		fb_videomode_to_var(&nvidiafb_default_var, &modedb);
		nvidiafb_default_var.bits_per_pixel = 8;
		} else if (par->fpWidth && par->fpHeight) {
		char buf[16];

		memset(buf, 0, 16);
		snprintf(buf, 15, "%dx%d", par->fpWidth, par->fpHeight);
		fb_find_mode(&nvidiafb_default_var, info, buf, specs->modedb,
		specs->modedb_len, &modedb, 8);
		}

		if (mode_option)

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