Re: vesa fb is slow on 2.6.15.1

[Hai Zaar]

On 1/28/06, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hai Zaar wrote:
> >> Looks harmless to me.
> >>
> >> Can you check /proc/iomem just to verify if that particular address has
> >> been reserved by the OS.
> > Relevant iomem entries are:
> > f0000000-f7ffffff : PCI Bus #40
> >   f0000000-f7ffffff : 0000:40:00.0
> >     f0000000-f7ffffff : vesafb
> > f8000000-f9ffffff : PCI Bus #40
> >   f8000000-f8ffffff : 0000:40:00.0
> >   f9000000-f9ffffff : 0000:40:00.0
> > After I load nvidia.ko, it changes to:
> > f0000000-f7ffffff : PCI Bus #40
> >   f0000000-f7ffffff : 0000:40:00.0
> >     f0000000-f7ffffff : vesafb
> > f8000000-f9ffffff : PCI Bus #40
> >   f8000000-f8ffffff : 0000:40:00.0
>     ^^^^^^^^
> Yes, this address range (16M) is already allocated to resource #0
> of the nvidia card.  So trying to allocate resource #6 on the same
> address looks bogus to me.

Ok. What now?
I've rebooted without 'vga' and 'video' parameters at all - the error stays.

BTW: How do you know that its allocated to resource #0 - are resource
numbers written somewhere in /proc/iomem and I've missed it?


> Tony
>


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Zaar
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