Re: i810/i815 graphics glitches at 1280x1024, gart problem?
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:54, Miles Bader wrote:
> 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
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
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