Blank frambuffer

Musikolo · 11-19-2006, 05:11 AM

Hi mates, I have an old Compaq Presario 2292. I've recently added some additional memory to it going from 64MB to 256MB (maximum supported). Since then, I can't boot in framebuffer mode no matter what distro I use. It's always the same thing: a blank screen. The only way to boot in framebuffer mode is by removing one memory module from bank 1. I've tried both swapping to each other and combing among themselves with its original 64MB module. The PC new memory is a couple of new 128MB KVR100X64C2 Kingston modules. They work great because they have passed several memory diagnostic tools successfully and in graphical mode (not framebuffer) they fantastic.

I've got these messages from the kernel at booting time:

Code:

#$dmesg | grep vesa
vesafb: cannot reserve video memory at 0x8000000
vesafb: abort, cannot ioremap video memory 0x400000 @ 0x8000000
vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -5

I've tried passing the following parameters to the kernel to try fixing this:

vga=nopentium
vga=791
vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,vram:16 1024x768@85
vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,vram:16 800x600@60
vga=0700 (works but that's text mode)

No one helped much. Thus, I hope you have any other clever idea to fix this.

I look forward to hearing from you guys!

Any help will be welcomed. Thanks.

PS: Full dmesg trace is next

Code:

Linux version 2.6.15 (Version: elive.04) (root@tanateo) (gcc versión 3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-1)) #1 Tue Jul 4 05:21:14 CEST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000eb400 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fc00000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffeb400 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
252MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 64512
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
  DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 60416 pages, LIFO batch:15
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMI 2.1 present.
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 0fc00000:f03eb400)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 vga=791 splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (011f9000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
Detected 333.188 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 247964k/258048k available (1523k kernel code, 9448k reserved, 563k data, 148k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 667.02 BogoMIPS (lpj=333514)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 008001bf 808009bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 008001bf 808009bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 008001bf 808009bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 00
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 4676k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9d4, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f75f0
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xa650, dseg 0x400
PnPBIOS: 15 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 15 recorded by driver
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:01.1
Boot video device is 0000:00:14.0
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 0000:00:01.0
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:01.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:01.2
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0d.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:12.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x8000-0x803f has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f0 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x3f1-0x3f1 has been reserved
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1163932389.525:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Disabling direct PCI/PCI transfers.
vesafb: cannot reserve video memory at 0x8000000
vesafb: abort, cannot ioremap video memory 0x400000 @ 0x8000000
Trying to free nonexistent resource <08000000-083fffff>
vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -5
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0d.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0d.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0d.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0d.0 to 32
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf800, 00:c0:26:a0:83:3e, IRQ 5
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:01.1
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:01.2
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS5597 ATA 33 controller
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcf8-0xfcff, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST34323A, ATA DISK drive
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8160B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:01.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:01.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.2 to 32
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: irq 9, io mem 0xfedff000
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 8421840 sectors (4311 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=8912/15/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ReiserFS: hda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda2: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda2: journal params: device hda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda2: checking transaction log (hda2)
ReiserFS: hda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:12.1 (0000 -> 0001)
gameport: EMU10K1 is pci0000:00:12.1/gameport0, io 0xfce8, speed 1217kHz
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
 0000:00:00.0: Looked for SIS5595 but found unsupported device 5597
sis630_smbus 0000:00:01.0: SIS630 comp. bus not detected, module not inserted.
sis5595_smbus 0000:00:01.0: Looked for SIS5595 but found unsupported device 5597
sis5595_smbus 0000:00:01.0: SIS5595 not detected, module not inserted.
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:12.0 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:12.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:12.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:12.0 to 32
Adding 309952k swap on /dev/hda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:309952k
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
eth0: link down
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)