Re: Fw: 2.6.11, framebuffer

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 02:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:56:08 +0100 (CET)
> From: stegall@bayou.uni-linz.ac.at
> To: akpm@osdl.org
> Subject: 2.6.11, framebuffer
>
>
> framebuffer, intel, 915g
>
> Greetings,
> complaints were requested, but I am not sure this is the correct
> place to make them:
>
> I cannot start a frame buffer on 2.6,11x using
> hardware with the
>     intel 915g
> chip. Either it crashes or nothing happens, depending on modules,
> kernel compilation etc. Nothing works.
>
> One thing I did see was
>
>    allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use
> vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
>
> I realize that this chip is ``new'', but
> it works quite satisfactorily  on 2.4.10* !

What driver are you using vesafb or intelfb? 915 support is a very recent
addition.

Can you send your dmesg and kernel config?

Tony




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