From: Walt H <waltabbyh@comcast.net>
To: admin@brien.com
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: my dual channel DDR 400 RAM won't work on any linux distro
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 09:58:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA2D1C9.5030707@comcast.net> (raw)
Do you perhaps have a video card with 128MB on board? I had the same
symptoms as you, and it turned out to be the vesafb driver. It basically
tries to ioremap the entire framebuffer and can't fit it in the reserved
area because it's only 128MB. You can either boot with vga=0 or some
such text mode, which disables the vesafb, or patch vesafb to only
ioremap the space needed for the video mode selected. BTW, the same
applies to rivafb and others I suspect, if your video card has 128MB ram.
-Walt
next reply other threads:[~2003-04-20 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-20 16:58 Walt H [this message]
[not found] <200304161511.h3GFBoe7000614@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
2003-04-16 15:41 ` my dual channel DDR 400 RAM won't work on any linux distro Brien
2003-04-16 15:47 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-04-16 15:58 ` Charles Cazabon
2003-04-16 16:10 ` Chris Friesen
2003-04-17 12:46 ` mbs
2003-04-17 12:45 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <1050506129.28586.121.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
2003-04-16 16:38 ` Brien
2003-04-16 17:01 ` John Bradford
2003-04-16 18:15 ` Brien
2003-04-16 19:28 ` John Bradford
2003-04-16 20:51 ` Brien
2003-04-17 8:12 ` John Bradford
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-16 14:59 Brien
2003-04-16 16:51 ` Bruce Harada
2003-04-16 20:53 ` Robert White
2003-04-16 21:01 ` Brien
2003-04-16 22:05 ` root
2003-04-17 1:16 ` Mike Dresser
2003-04-17 5:34 ` Peter Svensson
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