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

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

Miles Lane wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:02:38 -0800, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
>>Miles Lane wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:12:49 -0800, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>By the why, I don't know why Andrew got dropped from my previous message list.
>>>Also, I thought you were asking these questions of the fbdev and
>>>vidiafb developers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I guess that there is some chance that the io_remap_pfn* patches
>>>>are involved with this.
>>>
>>>
>>>I am a tester, so I don't have knowledge about this.
>>
>>Sure, it wasn't a question.  :)
>>
>>
>>>>Is there some way to determine exactly which
>>>>io remap kernel calls are involved in "nvidiafb: cannot ioremap FB
>>>>base" ?
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't know.  Someone who does, please tell me.  If someone
>>>will tell me how, I'll be happy to gather the information.
>>
>> >
>>
>>>>Is that in the exposed source code?
>>>
>>>
>>>I have no idea.  How would I find out?
>>>
>>>
>>>>If so, where is that source code?
>>>
>>>
>>>I have no clue.
>>
>>Where did you get the nvidia wrapper?
>>Where can I find it?
> 
> 
> Perhaps you are thinking I am using the NVidia binary driver?
> This is not the case.  nvidiafb is a recently added framebuffer
> driver (IIRC, first showing up in 2.6.12-rc1-mm2).  I believe
> khali@linux-fr.org is the author.  I have reproduced this 
> problem with both mm2 and mm3.
> 
> Do you need my .config file?

I'll let you know.
I wondered while driving home if you were using the
(new) in-kernel nv driver.  Thanks for you and Andrew
confirming that.  Looks like I didn't go back far enough
in the thread history.

> 
>>Where did you get the nvidia binary blob?
> 
> 
> If you had my .config file, couldn't you build the driver into
> the kernel, as I have?  I don't know what a driver blob is.
> I haven't built the driver as a module.
> 
> 
>>Where can I get it?
> 
> 
> Build it?
> 
> 
>>>>If not, can we determine from the binary which calls
>>>>are being made?
>>>
>>>
>>>Uhhh.  I have delivered the Oops info and a bunch of other
>>>information.  I have given you whatever I thought might be helpful.  I
>>>need guidance here.
>>
>>Sure, but the part that I really need to see is likely partially
>>hidden in some binary blob.  We'll see.
> 
> 
> Blob? Well, I have some i2c built as modules.
> 
> 
>>>Your humble tester (remember me from the early USB days?),
>>
>>Sure I do.  :)
>>I'll make a patch, probably tonight Pacific time.

I send you something later tonight.

-- 
~Randy


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