Bug 197652

Summary:	video shared memory problem hp dv8000
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Neal Becker <ndbecker2>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	5	CC:	pfrields, wtogami
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Description Neal Becker 2006-07-05 11:20:42 UTC

Description of problem:

If I set bios to use sidebar+shared mem for video, kernel doesn't appear to 
grok shared memory.  During boot, during graphical startup, screen is 
scribbled all over.  If I allow boot to try to proceed, everything starts 
segfaulting.  Apparantly, video shared memory is being scribbled on.  I have 
just updated bios to the latest and that didn't fix the problem.

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Comment 1 Dave Jones 2006-07-26 03:40:58 UTC

There's no documentation on how any of this stuff actually works, so unless ATI
have a change of heart all I can recommend is to not set that in the BIOS.