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

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

On Monday 25 April 2005 01:09, Miles Lane wrote:
> On 4/22/05, Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay, it also fails with Antonio's patches applied in addition to yours.
>
> I know I implied this in my previous message, but I want to make it
> explicit. This combination of patches also fails to give a working
> framebuffer console when I specify vmalloc=128M.  I only get a working
> framebuffer console by specifying vmalloc=256M.
>
>            Miles

Can you try this patch?  This limits the amount of RAM that nvidiafb
will remap to 64 MiB.  This is on top of another patch I sent to Andrew:
"[Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/6] nvidiafb: ioremap and i2c fixes"

Tony

diff -Nru a/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c b/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c
--- a/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c	2005-04-16 11:54:44 +08:00
+++ b/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c	2005-04-25 10:39:45 +08:00
@@ -1511,9 +1511,9 @@
 	if (vram && vram * 1024 * 1024 < par->FbMapSize)
 		par->FbMapSize = vram * 1024 * 1024;
 
-	/* Limit amount of vram to 128 MB */
-	if (par->FbMapSize > 128 * 1024 * 1024)
-		par->FbMapSize = 128 * 1024 * 1024;
+	/* Limit amount of vram to 64 MB */
+	if (par->FbMapSize > 64 * 1024 * 1024)
+		par->FbMapSize = 64 * 1024 * 1024;
 
 	par->FbUsableSize = par->FbMapSize - (128 * 1024);
 	par->ScratchBufferSize = (par->Architecture < NV_ARCH_10) ? 8 * 1024 :




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