Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] vesafb and too much RAM?

"Matt N." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302121649430.9293-100000@ie>
Well I have pretty much just given up. A BIOS issue is of course possible
but I wouldn't know how to tell. As for a native fbdev driver, I have a
GeForce 4 ti4600 so I think the rivafb would be the right one. I have
tried that however and it has the same results.

-Matt n.

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, James Simmons wrote:

>
> Any luck? For teh life of me I can't figure it out. It could be a bug in
> the BIOS. Is there a native fbdev driver for that card?
>
> > No luck.  I have ACPI compiled as modules so I tried having them not load.
> > This didn't work so I recompiled with no power management at all. This
> > also had no effect.
> >
> > If I need to supply any additional information I would be happy to do so.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion it was something I had not thought to test.
> >
> > -Matt N.
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, James Simmons wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > I guess I shouild have mentioned that this was the first thing I tried. My
> > > > kernel is compiled with support for 4GB of memory.
> > > >
> > > > Any other ideas?
> > >
> > > Do you have ACPI turned on? If you do try turning it off.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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