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From: "Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>
To: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: atyfb rmmod & vram crash, 2.6.24, 2.6.25-rc8
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:23:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080403082336.GD16619@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080402124854.M56647@visp.net.lb>

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:54:12PM +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
> VGA card i dont know how much RAM there actually, but lspci here shows looks
> like 16MB:
> 
> 03:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev
> 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>         Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Pro Turbo
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>         Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>         Latency: 66 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
>         Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]

This region is always 16MB regardless of how much actual RAM is on the
card.

> Loading without parameters
> 
> atyfb: using auxiliary register aperture
> atyfb: 3D RAGE PRO (Mach64 GP, PQFP, PCI) [0x4750 rev 0x7c]
> atyfb: Mach64 BIOS is located at c0000, mapped at c00c0000.
> atyfb: BIOS frequency table:
> atyfb: PCLK_min_freq 984, PCLK_max_freq 23600, ref_freq 2950, ref_divider 64
> atyfb: MCLK_pwd 4200, MCLK_max_freq 7500, XCLK_max_freq 10000, SCLK_freq 5000
> atyfb: 8M SGRAM (1:1), 29.498928 MHz XTAL, 236 MHz PLL, 75 Mhz MCLK, 100 MHz XCLK
> atyfb: fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI
> 
> It detects 8M.
> If i put parameter vram=8

The vram paramter takes KB not MB.

Why do you want to override it anyway? It seems to detect the amount of
RAM just fine.

> And most interesting when i do rmmod
> tv1 ~ # rmmod atyfb
> Segmentation fault

Does this only happen after the failure caused by the bad vram parameter?

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@sci.fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-03  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080402124854.M56647@visp.net.lb>
2008-04-02 21:55 ` atyfb rmmod & vram crash, 2.6.24, 2.6.25-rc8 Andrew Morton
2008-04-03  5:22   ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-04-03  5:30     ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-03  8:23 ` Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2008-04-03 10:10   ` Denys Fedoryshchenko

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