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

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

Oops.  Sorry some of you will get this twice.

Yes, that patch fixed the problem.  I was able to get a usable
framebuffer console without specifying the vmalloc boot parameter.

Thanks!
          Miles

On 4/24/05, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@hotpop.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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