#9318 NORM 1.5-ATe: Via framebuffer failure on 1.5
Chris Ball
cjb at laptop.org
Fri May 29 04:55:18 EDT 2009
Hi,
> Why is viafb trying to allocate 268 MB of memory ? That seems
> like a lot for a simple fb driver..
Answer: Because the BIOS told it to.
Question #2: What happens if you change the framebuffer size in the
BIOS to 32M?
Answer #2: It works. :)
There's some sort of corruption in the logo, but that might just be an
incorrectly-set depth; I haven't tried specifying a mode yet.
- Chris.
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Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org>
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