Bug#421418: No XV here too

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 09:18 +0200, Alexandre Rossi wrote:
> 
> > > (WW) intel(0): Disabling Xv because the overlay register buffer
> > > allocation failed.
> > >
> > > If I explicitely use VideoRam 32768 in xorg.conf, xorg does not start
> > > and fails with the following message :
> > > (II) intel(0): Kernel reported 110080 total, 1 used
> > > (II) intel(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 440316 kB available
> > > (**) intel(0): VideoRam: 32768 KB
> > > (II) intel(0): Allocating 5273 scanlines for pixmap cache
> > > (EE) intel(0): Failed to allocate framebuffer. Is your VideoRAM set too low?
> >
> > As indicated here, try commenting out the VideoRam directive in
> > xorg.conf.
> 
> If I do, X.org starts but no XV, which is deactivated due to failing
> "overlay register allocation" .

Does the BIOS setup allow changing the graphics aperture size? If yes,
can you try increasing it?


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