Re: HOWTO-vesafb v0.3 out!

Kurt Garloff (garloff@kg1.ping.de)
Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:41:58 +0200

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> this will not always work, as an example some Cirrus Logic cards such as
> the VLB 54xx series are mapped to a range of memory addresses (for
> example, within the 15MB-16MB range) for frame buffering which preludes
> these from being used successfully with systems that have more than 32MB
> of memory. If you wish to experiment with this option, there are plenty of

Is this logical? My idea would be that you have conflicts accessing your
memory as soon as you have more than 15 or 16 MB, dep. on how clever your
BIOS is hiding the 1MB.
You might be able to use your VLB graphics fb, if you say mem=15M to the
kernel.

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Kurt Garloff, Dortmund 
<K.Garloff@ping.de>
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