Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521)
On 2012-11-05 11:10 +0100, John Hughes wrote:
> On 04/11/12 12:11, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>> Assuming that you still have the hardware:
>
> Aha, there's the rub - I fobbed it off on some other poor loser.
>> How much memory does your system have? If it's more than 2 Gigabyte,
>> try booting with the "mem=2G" kernel parameter.
>
> As far as I remember it had 4G.
Well, I guess that explains it.
>> See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46557 for more
>> information on that topic.
>
> Thanks. I guess you can close the bug.
Rather not, since the problem hasn't been fixed yet. I'll reassign it
to the kernel.
Cheers,
Sven
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