[Nouveau] [Bug 80675] [NVAA] Nouveau KMS framebuffer hand-over: no/black console on Nvidia MCP78S/C77/GeForce 8300 (10de:0848) with 32MB graphics RAM, X11 ok

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80675

--- Comment #7 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
(In reply to Walter Haidinger from comment #6)
> Update: I got my consoles back! :-)
> 
> Fix: Increased the ivdeo RAM set in the BIOS for the video card from 32MB to
> 64MB.
> I've also modified the title accordingly.
> 
> Before:
>  nouveau  [     DRM] VRAM: 32 MiB
> 
> Now:
>  nouveau  [     DRM] VRAM: 64 MiB
> 
> Before closing this bug, could you at least add a warning if someone sets
> the video memory below 64MB?

There shouldn't be any issue with using 32MB of vram. However I do think that
the scanout buffer has to be in VRAM... which should be *more* than sufficient
for 1024x768. Sounds like we're doing something very wrong somewhere...

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