Comment 4 for bug 772042

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Seth Forshee (sforshee) wrote :

It looks like the kernel is getting garbage data when querying the bios for video parameters via the vesa bios extensions. The bios indicates the maximum amount of framebuffer memory is nearly 4GB and that for the selected video mode the framebuffer size is nearly that big as well. The warning happens when vesafb tries to create an outrageously large memory mapping for the framebuffer based on these parameters.

Can you check whether there are any bios updates for your machine? If not I can look into creating some sort of workaround.