Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] No console on Riva TNT since 2.6.26-0.rc4

[Quel Qun]

Thanks for looking at that.

It takes a while to compile a kernel on this machine, but I will try this patch and report.
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Eric
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxxxxxx>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:51:49 +0400
> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:41:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:04:56 +0000 kelk1@xxxxxxxxxxx (Quel Qun) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > The system boots fine with 2.6.26-0.rc3.1mnb (Mandriva Cooker), but since 
> rc4, I see a few squares of color, then a black screen and the console never 
> comes back. This is independent of the resolution chosen when using vga=ask. The 
> machine does boot and I can start X if I log in blindly. Only the F1 to F6 
> consoles are gone.
> > > > 
> 
> Please try the patch below if it helps:
> 
> --- linux-2.6.26/drivers/video/vesafb.c	2008-07-13 23:51:29.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-mm/drivers/video/vesafb.c	2008-07-19 17:56:51.774318414 +0200
> @@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ static int __init vesafb_probe(struct pl
>  	/*   size_total -- all video memory we have. Used for mtrr
>  	 *                 entries, ressource allocation and bounds
>  	 *                 checking. */
> -	size_total = screen_info.lfb_size * 65536;
> +	size_total = screen_info.lfb_linelength * screen_info.lfb_height *
> +		     screen_info.pages;
>  	if (vram_total)
>  		size_total = vram_total * 1024 * 1024;
>  	if (size_total < size_vmode)
> 
> Regards,
> Krzysztof
> 
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