* Re: Re:2.5.70-mm4
2003-06-04 11:08 Vitalis Tiknius
@ 2003-06-04 10:12 ` Alan Cox
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From: Alan Cox @ 2003-06-04 10:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vitalis Tiknius; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List
On Mer, 2003-06-04 at 12:08, Vitalis Tiknius wrote:
> re. cdrom mount problem: so far, so good with all combinations.
>
> vesafb problem: does not work with memory >1Gb.
There is a more complete fix in the -ac tree. The one you have there is
ought on memory allocation by a factor of eight and doesn't allow for
double buffering and catching some corner cases.
The 2.4 one has been evolving somewhat over time
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* Re:2.5.70-mm4
@ 2003-06-04 11:08 Vitalis Tiknius
2003-06-04 10:12 ` Re:2.5.70-mm4 Alan Cox
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From: Vitalis Tiknius @ 2003-06-04 11:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
re. cdrom mount problem: so far, so good with all combinations.
vesafb problem: does not work with memory >1Gb.
with patch:
--- vesafb.c.old 2003-06-04 12:12:03.000000000 +0200
+++ vesafb.c 2003-06-04 12:40:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
vesafb_defined.xres = screen_info.lfb_width;
vesafb_defined.yres = screen_info.lfb_height;
vesafb_fix.line_length = screen_info.lfb_linelength;
- vesafb_fix.smem_len = screen_info.lfb_size * 65536;
+ vesafb_fix.smem_len = screen_info.lfb_width * screen_info.lfb_height *
vesafb_defined.bits_per_pixel;
vesafb_fix.visual = (vesafb_defined.bits_per_pixel == 8) ?
FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR : FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR;
from http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19061 all is ok. it is not the
time to apply this patch?
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