Re: Framebuffer problem.

From: Arnaud Ligot
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 13:46:49 EST


hi,

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 01:02 -0200, Olavo B D'Antonio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I changed my GeForce FX 5200 128MB to another GeForce FX5200 but
> with 256MB of memory, and something had been wrong. At boot, framebuffer
> return a error:
> vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
same error here (Linux chatPotte 2.6.8.1 #2 SMP Thu Sep 16 06:38:51 CEST
2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux)
(SMP with the HT Scheduler)

I never tried with a newer kernel... I could do that during this week if
you want.

I only managed to get a framebuffer with the vga driver :-/

I have the same card but sold in an ASUS box.

-- (from cat /proc/pci)
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
(rev 161).
IRQ 16.
Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfd000000 [0xfdffffff].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe7ffffff].

A.

--
Arnaud Ligot <spyroux@xxxxxxxxxx>

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