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

(Added the mailing list - trust that's ok)

Miles Lane [off-list ref] wrote:

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=306 video=nvidiafb
init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce
nvidiafb: nVidia device/chipset 10DE0312
nvidiafb: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600]
nvidiafb: CRTC0 found
nvidiafb: CRTC1 not found
nvidiafb: EDID found from BUS1
nvidiafb: CRTC 0 appears to have a CRT attached
nvidiafb: Using CRT on CRTC 0

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I am wondering whether the following two lines point to the problem.

allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
nvidiafb: cannot ioremap FB base

Quite possibly.

I'll do rc2-mm3 tonight - please test that.  It has fixes.

CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA=y
CONFIG_I2C=y
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=y
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCF=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCA=m
CONFIG_I2C_ISA=m
CONFIG_I2C_NFORCE2=m

CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_SOFT_CURSOR=y
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y
CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

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