linux-kernel - Re: linux-v2.6.25-rc3 issue: nvidiafb: cannot ioremap FB base

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Message-ID: <22886.1204213070@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:37:50 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-v2.6.25-rc3 issue: nvidiafb: cannot ioremap FB base

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:07:27 +0100, Francis Moreau said:
> Hi,
> 
> I gave to the latest -rc (rc3) a test and it appears to fail to load the
> nvidiafb module and the reason given is:
> 
> nvidiafb: cannot ioremap FB base
> 
> Does anybody have a clue ?

Umm.. do you also have vesafb or other FB built as a module?  I got bit by
that with the binary NVidia driver, discovered it was because vesafb had
already done an ioremap of the space, but with different caching flags...

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