Bug#585651: nouveau: Fails to use same resolution than console
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 16:06:55 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-06-13 01:19 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 08:45:42 +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> >
> >> This probably is due to your high resolution and low video memory - a
> >> 1900x1200 truecolour framebuffer takes up slightly more than half your
> >> VRAM.
> >>
> > I guess ideally the driver could try allocating a smaller framebuffer if
> > it fails the first allocation. Or just not try a too big resolution for
> > that little vram in the first place. Not sure how easy a fix would
> > be...
>
> Upstream has now chosen to lower the default color depth on low memory
> cards in both the kernel¹ (as of Linux 3.2-rc2) and the DDX². Do you
> think this is enough to close the bug?
>
Sounds good to me fwiw.
Cheers,
Julien
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