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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 -- nvidiafb driver gives black screen
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:31:18 -0800
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Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=306 video=nvidiafb
> init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce
> nvidiafb: nVidia device/chipset 10DE0312
> nvidiafb: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600]
> nvidiafb: CRTC0 found
> nvidiafb: CRTC1 not found
> nvidiafb: EDID found from BUS1
> nvidiafb: CRTC 0 appears to have a CRT attached
> nvidiafb: Using CRT on CRTC 0
> 
> >> I am wondering whether the following two lines point to the problem.
> 
> allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
> nvidiafb: cannot ioremap FB base

Quite possibly.

I'll do rc2-mm3 tonight - please test that.  It has fixes.

> CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA=y
> CONFIG_I2C=y
> CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=m
> CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=y
> CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCF=m
> CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCA=m
> CONFIG_I2C_ISA=m
> CONFIG_I2C_NFORCE2=m
> 
> CONFIG_FB=y
> CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
> CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
> CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
> CONFIG_FB_SOFT_CURSOR=y
> CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
> CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
> CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y
> CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y
> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y


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