Bug#420506: DRI fails
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:38 -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Esteban Paz Freire <esteban.paz@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > VideoRam 65536
>
> I ran into this myself (though I have an i915 rather than an i855) and
> found that commenting out the VideoRam directive helped. (X proceeded
> to claim a whopping 256M, though, which strikes me as excessive. :-/)
It probably doesn't really use that much memory up front. The log file
has a detailed overview of the AGP aperture layout after 'Memory
allocation layout:', but note that e.g. the 'DRI memory manager' item is
just a reservation of aperture space and doesn't actually use up any
memory until you run a 3D application with the new i915tex Mesa driver
(for which you'd need at least a 2.6.21 kernel and drm GIT at this
time).
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