Re: i810/i815 graphics glitches at 1280x1024, gart problem?
Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> 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
(II) I810(0): Adding 256 scanlines for pixmap caching
(II) I810(0): Allocated Scratch Memory
(II) I810(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
Solid Horizontal and Vertical Lines
Offscreen Pixmaps
(==) I810(0): Backing store disabled
(==) I810(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) I810(0): DPMS enabled
(==) I810(0): Direct rendering disabled
> > 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...
Thanks,
-Miles
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