Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook
It's not the DRI per se... it's the radeon memory manager. it attempts
to statically allocate offscreen memory for use by the DRI, pixmaps,
etc. It has no effect on modes, so you can safely ignore it.
Alex
--- "Andreakis, Dean (MED)" <Dean.Andreakis@med.ge.com> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> I went ahead and commented out the dri section and the Load "dri",
> Load
> "GLcore" and Load "glx" lines in the "Module" section of XF86Config-4
> to
> try and prevent the DRI drivers from loading but I still see the same
> messages in the XF86 log file. Maybe I need to do something else to
> stop
> DRI from trying to load...
>
> thx,
>
> -dean andreakis
>
> On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:47, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > this is from the DRI (front, back, and depth buffers) not the 2D
> driver
> > I think.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > --- "Andreakis, Dean (MED)" <Dean.Andreakis@med.ge.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > (WW) RADEON (0): Static buffer allocation failed -- need at least
> > > 9216
> > > kB video memory
> > > (II) RADEON (0): Memory manager initialzed to (0,0) (10124,2048)
> > > (II) RADEON (0): Reserved area from (0,768) to (1024, 770)
> > > (II) RADEON (0): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 1278
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > (WW) RADEON (1): Static buffer allocation failed -- need at least
> > > 9216
> > > kB video memory
> > > (II) RADEON (1): Memory manager initialzed to (0,0) (10124,2048)
> > > (II) RADEON (1): Reserved area from (0,768) to (1024, 770)
> > > (II) RADEON (1): Largest offscreen area available: 1024 x 1278
> > >
> > > It seems confusing to me since I have 16MBytes of video memory
> > > installed. For 1024x768x32bpp mode (worste case) this only
> calculates
> > > to
> > > 3145728 bytes per screen but yet its telling me I need 9216
> kBytes
> > > per
> > > screen...hmmmm...must be more buffer allocation needed by the
> chip
> > > then
> > > just the on-screen area frame buffer....
> > >
> > > any thoughts?
> > >
> > > thx...
> > >
> > > -dean andreakis
> >
> >
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