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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org