Bug#587999: further info

[Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster@knuut.de>]

On Friday 09 July 2010 14:56:39 Michel Dänzer wrote:
> This is the reason for the DRI being disabled now:
> > (II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1728,4854)
> > (II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1680) to (1728,1682)
> > (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1728 x 3172
> > (II) RADEON(0): Will use front buffer at offset 0x0
> > (II) RADEON(0): Will use back buffer at offset 0x9cf000
> > (II) RADEON(0): Will use depth buffer at offset 0x14e2000
> > (II) RADEON(0): Will use 0 kb for textures at offset 0x1ff5000
> > (EE) RADEON(0): Static buffer allocation failed.  Disabling DRI.
> > (EE) RADEON(0): At least 34020 kB of video memory needed at this
> > resolution and depth.
> 
> Maybe it'll work without Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"

I'll try that.

> (or with explicit "EXA" instead), otherwise you'll need to
> reduce the maximum desktop size via the Virtual directive or
> run in depth 16.

EXA and 16 BPP are out, except if using neither of EXA and XAA changes 
anything there:

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565313
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567616
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567793

Hopefully...

Uli