VESA fb problem with 2.6.7-mm[567]

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
...

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).

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Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V a)   Ralf.Hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx
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