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| author | Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> | 2021-05-17 21:50:23 +0300 |
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| committer | Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> | 2021-05-17 21:50:23 +0300 |
| commit | ae82f4b2746eb24295389f184bc18a9cb6c8f31c (patch) | |
| tree | a3ab6a83f3e726a326c2a535c67fc57aead0d099 | |
| parent | 0bb81df318e2dbd093040ba35a51b726b8954cb5 (diff) | |
Mention iomem=relaxed in the README FAQ for Linux 4.x+ requirements
Thanks to Ben Hutchings for pointing out that vesafb and legacy X
drivers can peacefully coexist if iomem=relaxed gets added to the
Linux kernel cmdline options.
Signed-off-by: Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -94,7 +94,10 @@ A: Since kernel 4.x Linux has strong memory protection. If the kernel is GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text - Once this option has been added and the GRUB configuration refreshed, + Alternately, adding iomem=relaxed to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT will + allow the video memory to be accessed by vesafb and the GEODE driver. + + Once either option has been added and the GRUB configuration refreshed, the GEODE driver will launch on recent kernels as previously. Q: Why doesn't the GEODE driver work at WXGA (wide screen) resolutions? |