Framebuffer problems

pete123 · 04-08-2006, 01:16 PM

Just got a new laptop, with a native resolution of 1280x800. It seems to be working fine, except after suspending to ram/disk the framebuffer becomes corrupted. (Small repeats of what should be there coloured pink tiled across the top of the screen.)

It works if I use vga=normal, but that doesn't exactly look that great. Is there a way to stop this corruption, either with some other module/options etc?

Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks

drkstr · 04-09-2006, 02:14 AM

does your video card use nvidia's chipset? This is a known bug for nvidia cards. If so, ask nvidia to fix it. If enough people bother them, maybe they'll do something about it.

regards,
...drkstr

pete123 · 04-09-2006, 08:12 AM

Thanks, I guess that is the problem then. Wasn't even that long ago and they didn't support suspend to disk, hopefully soon they will fix this framebuffer bug.

pete123 · 04-10-2006, 06:30 PM

New nvidia driver was released, 1.0-8756, seems to be working now

Although this laptop has to go back! Ill be getting the same one with more ram and disk space though

drkstr · 04-10-2006, 07:54 PM

Awsome, I'll have to check it out. I've been having the same problem as you with my nvidia card. Thanks for the info! ...drkstr

cs-cam · 04-11-2006, 03:27 AM

Yup, as stated in the Nvidia changelog, all the suspend issues should be fixed in this update of the driver.