Re: Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 -- nvidiafb driver gives black screen

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

On Friday 15 April 2005 01:06, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> > As for the i2c problem, this is probably due to a misplaced label in
> > the failure path, and the reason why I had a difficult time
> > reproducing this bug. When nvidiafb failed with the ioremap, it
> > skipped deletion of the i2c busses causing the crash whenever the bus
> > created by nvidiafb is read.  The fix is also included in this patch.
>
> Exactly what I suspected from the very beginning, but I did not
> investigate the error path back then - in fact I can't remember Miles
> telling me that the the driver was actually not working for him. Thanks

He didn't.  I just assumed that it did because he also reported that nvidiafb
failed to load due to an ioremap problem (too much video RAM).

> a lot for confirming and fixing the problem.

Well, not yet confirmed, I'll wait for Miles to do so.

Tony




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