Not sure if this is the one the best places to post this, but because I was having problems with my acer laptop when I installed 4GB of RAM in that the nvidia was still being told by the BIOS to assign its dedicated memory where the system ram was.
So I altered the kernel to work with my 4GB and making the kernel push any requests to the new area of space of RAM that I wanted to place the nvidia 256MB of ram.
I am using a 64bit kernel, and my acer laptop is 9815.
I had to alter the /arch/x86/pci/i386.c file within the kernel.
Altered the function called
static void __init pcibios_allocate_bus_resources(struct list_head *bus_list)
and added in
if ((r->start >= 0xc0000000) && (r->end <= 0xcfffffff)) {
dev_info(&dev->dev,
" not allocating resource 0xc - 0xcf %pR\n",
r);
/*
stop any resources gaining the 0xc0000000 - 0xcfffffff
region, the linux kernel will re-place them.
*/
r->flags = 0;
}
I have placed more information here, as I say not sure if this is the correct place to help others incase they have the same problem. But I found it very annoying to say the least.!
I was getting BAR 1 errors which means that Base Address Registers was not being able to get the memory for the graphics card to work.
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Some here was going to do a PCI upgrade for the linux kernel
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