I also have the exact same problem. Package: fglrx-modules-2.6.30-1-686 Version: 2.6.30+9-6-1 Severity: important
Attempting to load the fglrx kernel module fails. china:~$ sudo modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.30-1-686/nonfree/fglrx/fglrx.ko): Cannot allocate memory china:~$ dmesg |tail [ 411.932221] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads [ 411.932226] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed [ 1322.656180] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1292 MBytes. [ 1322.656465] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes [ 1322.656471] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads [ 1322.656475] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed [ 1522.686509] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1292 MBytes. [ 1522.686803] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes [ 1522.686809] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads [ 1522.686813] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed Machine is a Asus A6Rp with a ATI Radeon Xpress 200M main board. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) china:~$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages fglrx-modules-2.6.30-1-686 depends on: ii linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 [lin 2.6.30-3 Linux 2.6.30 image on PPro/Celeron fglrx-modules-2.6.30-1-686 recommends no packages. fglrx-modules-2.6.30-1-686 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- 致, 礼 高进军 --------------------------------------------- Institute of Computing technology Chinese Academy of Sciences P.O.Box 2704, 100190, Beijing, China