Bug#585651: nouveau: Fails to use same resolution than console

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2011-12-01 19:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> 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.

Okay, I'll close the bug in the next snapshot.  Achim, on kernels <= 3.1
you may want to boot with the "video=1920x1200-8" kernel parameter to
reduce the framebuffer's color depth.  See
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting.

Cheers,
       Sven