diff --git a/drivers/video/tridentfb.c b/drivers/video/tridentfb.c
index 8ee4261..e79788a 100644
--- a/drivers/video/tridentfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/tridentfb.c
@@ -1287,6 +1287,7 @@
 
 	if (!request_mem_region(tridentfb_fix.mmio_start, tridentfb_fix.mmio_len, "tridentfb")) {
 		debug("request_region failed!\n");
+		framebuffer_release(info);
 		return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -1299,8 +1300,6 @@
 		goto out_unmap1;
 	}
 
-	enable_mmio();
-
 	/* setup framebuffer memory */
 	tridentfb_fix.smem_start = pci_resource_start(dev, 0);
 	tridentfb_fix.smem_len = get_memsize(default_par);
@@ -1312,6 +1311,8 @@
 		goto out_unmap1;
 	}
 
+	enable_mmio();
+
 	info->screen_base = ioremap_nocache(tridentfb_fix.smem_start,
 					    tridentfb_fix.smem_len);