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

[Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>]

Your patches seem to have fixed the Oops with I2C, but 
nvidiafb is not working unless I specify more than vmalloc=128M
in the append options.  That is, the default kernel options
do not provide for a working nvidiafb display.

Here's what I get when testing 2.6.12-rc2-mm3
(I verified that your two patches have been applied in my
tree):

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=306
video=nvidiafb:1280x1024-16@85 vmalloc=
128M init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce

nvidiafb: nVidia device/chipset 10DE0312
nvidiafb: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600]
i2c_adapter i2c-0: registered as adapter #0
i2c_adapter i2c-1: registered as adapter #1
i2c_adapter i2c-2: registered as adapter #2
nvidiafb: CRTC0 found
nvidiafb: CRTC1 not found
i2c_adapter i2c-0: master_xfer[0] W, addr=0x50, len=1
i2c_adapter i2c-0: master_xfer[1] R, addr=0x50, len=128
nvidiafb: EDID found from BUS1
i2c_adapter i2c-1: master_xfer[0] W, addr=0x50, len=1
i2c_adapter i2c-1: master_xfer[1] R, addr=0x50, len=128
i2c_adapter i2c-1: master_xfer[0] W, addr=0x50, len=1
i2c_adapter i2c-1: master_xfer[1] R, addr=0x50, len=128
i2c_adapter i2c-1: master_xfer[0] W, addr=0x50, len=1
i2c_adapter i2c-1: master_xfer[1] R, addr=0x50, len=128
nvidiafb: CRTC 0 appears to have a CRT attached
nvidiafb: Using CRT on CRTC 0
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
nvidiafb: cannot ioremap FB base

When I boot, the screen stays black until XFree86 starts up.


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