On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:43:35AM +0000, Sarfraz Nawaz wrote:
> 1) Without applying any patches fbset -i shows 16MB of ram
> 2) Cant find the patch for 2.4.22. So I applied the patch that came with  
> Directfb. fbset -i shows something like 25MB (cant remember exactly but
> definitely more than 16MB).

It's probably 24MB. The 8MB is stolen by matroxfb_crtc2. Either don't
load it or give it mem=0 parameter.

> Directfb app run fine. When the fb app exits
> and I run something on console which dumps a lot of text output (say
> make), the console becomes black after a few hundred lines of text and
> then I see garbled gray images much like the fb application.

That sounds like you're using the old 32mb-patch. The full-memory patch
shouldn't break console acceleration. Either way you can fix it by
limiting vyres so that things stay under 16MB.

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