Bug#585651: nouveau: Fails to use same resolution than console
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?
Cheers,
Sven
¹ http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=1e482f75f169861e992eb6b5602dc73a9e0b63a2
² http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/xf86-video-nouveau/commit/?id=9fa0c6c74d0b9f7d66ebe3c99184eaa13abeb1a0
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