On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:54, Miles Bader wrote: > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Grrr, I really wish I could just slap a debugger on the kernel and > > > see _why_ the allocation is failing... hmmm, maybe I can stick some > > > printks in at least. ACtually that's not a bad idea... > > > > Again, it's likely because you're reserving all AGP memory for the > > framebuffer. > > I tried reducing the framebuffer size with `VideoRam 16384', which > resulted in fewer minors error, but the garp allocation still fails. > > (==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0xf8000000,0x4000000) > (II) I810(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000 > (II) I810(0): Setting dot clock to 108.0 MHz [ 0x10 0x2 0x20 ] [ 18 4 2 ] > (II) I810(0): chose watermark 0x22418000: (tab.freq 108.0) > (WW) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 1024 pages failed > (Cannot allocate memory) > (II) I810(0): No physical memory available for 4194304 bytes of DCACHE
The GART allocation does work for the HW cursor now though, so maybe there's actually not enough RAM available? > > > BTW, in case all my efforts fail, anyone got a recommendation for a > > > good but cheap `low-profile'* AGP video card that works well with > > > xfree86? :-) :-( > > > > I'd try xserver-xfree86 4.3.0-0pre1v1 from experimental first. > > Hmmm, I'll give it a go come monday. > > When in doubt, cross your fingers and install the latest experimental > release... The point isn't this but that the problem you're seeing might have been fixed between 4.2 and 4.3. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
