Error in rs400_gart_adjust_size

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 12:13:36 PDT 2010


On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Daniel Klaffenbach
<danielklaffenbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave Airlie wrote:
>> from memory it was rs480+4GB RAM where the issue arose.
> I only have 2GB of memory in my laptop (still 64bit system). I also
> lowered the graphics memory in BIOS to 32MB, but the error still appears.
>
> Alex Deucher wrote:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27529
>> is likely related.
> Possibly. Sometimes I also get screen corruptions but only in KMail. I
> forgot to mention that the error message comes up right at boot time
> (even before the framebuffer with Tux kicks in).

The dmesg error is misleading.  It's just telling you the gart
aperture has been limited to 32 MB by the driver.  We should probably
make that an info message or remove it altogether.

Alex


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