From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264430AbUGKUhH (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:37:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266656AbUGKUhH (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:37:07 -0400 Received: from hauptpostamt.charite.de ([193.175.66.220]:47764 "EHLO hauptpostamt.charite.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264430AbUGKUhD (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:37:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:36:59 +0200 From: Ralf Hildebrandt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: VESA fb problem with 2.6.7-mm[567] Message-ID: <20040711203659.GE2899@charite.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The nvidia graphics card in one of my laptops cannot be talked into working with vesafb: ... ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:01.1 PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 5 of device 0000:00:01.1 vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6 vga16fb: initializing vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000 fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1 devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) ... 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11 Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0 Short: * vesafb fails * vga16fb works The same kernel works on another laptop with another nvidia card. The only major difference is the unorthodox display resolution in this laptop (WXGA, 1280x800). -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V a) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 IT-Zentrum Standort Campus Mitte AIM. ralfpostfix