nv driver reports "VideoRam: 0 kBytes"

Tiago Vignatti vignatti at c3sl.ufpr.br
Sun Mar 2 20:34:02 PST 2008


Richard and Monica Bland escreveu:
> All,
> 
> I'm try to debug an instability problem on my Linux box and part of that
> process is removing the binary nvidia drivers and using the nv driver
> instead.
> 
> I have a dual head machine :
> 
> ted ~ # lspci | grep VGA
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300
> GS] (rev a1)
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300
> GS] (rev a1)
> 
> The first VGA head points to an XFCE Desktop, the second to the TV. The
> machine runs two copies of X, so different users 'own' the different VGA
> heads
> 
> The first VGA head initialises OK and starts the XFCE GUI. The second
> head fails to start X, complaining:
> 
> ted log # tail Xorg.1.log
> (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (insufficient memory for mode)
> (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (insufficient memory for
> mode)
> (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (insufficient memory for mode)
> (WW) NV(0): Mode pool is empty
> (EE) NV(0): No valid modes found
> (II) UnloadModule: "nv"
> (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
> (II) UnloadModule: "int10"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> I traced this (insufficient memory for mode) back to this entry in the X
> log :
> 
> (--) NV(0): VideoRAM: 0 kBytes
> 
> I've tried forcing the VideoRAM to 131072 (what X is reporting on the
> first card), but it's being ignored.
> 
> I'm using xorg-server-1.3.0 and xf86-video-nv-2.1.6 and Linux
> 2.6.22-gentoo-r5. I've uploaded my Xorg.log and xorg.conf as follows:
> 
> http://www.combinedeffort.com/X/xorg.conf
> http://www.combinedeffort.com/X/Xorg.log
> 
> 
> Anyone have any ideas why the 'second' card reports 0KB VideoRAM?

See the "pciaccess clean up" mail thread.


Cheers,

-- 
Tiago Vignatti
C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre
www.c3sl.ufpr.br



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