Various regressions with xf86-video-intel 2.0.0 on 855GM

[Wang Zhenyu]

On 2007.05.18 00:38:01 +0000, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > Rémi Cardona wrote:
> > >> 4) DRI no longer works (with or without EXA enabled). Here's what
> > >> happens in Xorg.0.log
> > >>
> > >> (II) intel(0): Attempting memory allocation with untiled buffers and
> > >>                small DRI memory manager reservation:
> > >> (WW) intel(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 10 pages failed
> > >>         (Cannot allocate memory)
> > >> (WW) intel(0): Failed to allocate texture space.
> > >> (WW) intel(0): Not enough video memory.  Disabling DRI.
> > >>
> > >> The first three messages are repeated a few times before and after the
> > >> "Disabling DRI" message.
> > > 
> > > Removing the "virtual 2048 2048" fixes it. I have 1.25gigs of ram. Any
> > > way to up the current system ram usage for the driver?
> > 
> > (replying here, I somehow lost Eric's mail)
> > 
> > No my xorg.conf doesn't have any VideoRam parameter, or anything 
> > remotely like it.
> 
> See http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10808 .
> 

The problem is that we staticly alloc fixed size (32M) texture mem,
which probably fail on this small aperture machine. The cacheline hack
just releases more space for it. We should fix it eventually, but could
you try to set higher aperture size in bios setting?