Bug#493521: xserver-xorg: can only use half of my video RAM

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.3+14
> Severity: normal
>
> I have a Radeon X1900 with 512MB of RAM, but the X server refuses to
> use more than half of it.  The log below is with the 'radeon' driver,
> and the relevant bits are:
>
> (II) RADEON(0): Framebuffer space used by Firmware (kb): 20
> (II) RADEON(0): Start of VRAM area used by Firmware: 0x7ffb000
> (II) RADEON(0): Framebuffer space used by Firmware (kb): 20
> (II) RADEON(0): Start of VRAM area used by Firmware: 0x7ffb000
> (II) RADEON(0): AtomBIOS requests 20kB of VRAM scratch space
> (II) RADEON(0): AtomBIOS VRAM scratch base: 0x7ffb000
> (II) RADEON(0): Cannot get VRAM scratch space. Allocating in main memory instead
> ....
> (II) RADEON(0): Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory
> (II) RADEON(0): Detected total video RAM=524288K, accessible=262144K (PCI BAR=262144K)
> (--) RADEON(0): Mapped VideoRAM: 262144 kByte (256 bit DDR SDRAM)
>   

I just uploaded 2 newer radeon/ati:
* 6.9.0-1+lenny2 = 6.9.0 + many backports of fixes, in unstable, for
Xserver 1.4
* 6.9.0+git20080802....-1 = latest upstream git, in experimental, for
Xserver 1.4.99 in experimental

Can you try one of them?

Brice