Radeon RS482 video memory changing

Fri Jul 9 05:18:04 PDT 2010

Greetings guys.

In first place, I want to say a great «thanks!» to you all. Your work at the
field of X programming and creation of the perfect & stable video drivers is
really outstanding!

But, unfortunately, a little occasion with video has been observing on my
laptop.

*The cover story:*
      Recently, I forced my *Dell Inspiron 1501n* up with a new *
LinuxMint_x86_x64* release as well as *x86-free-radeon* driver. Before this
migration, I used *PCLinuxOS* which have *x86_32* support and
*Ati*proprietary driver also included. My laptop, mentioned above,
contains
*Turion MK-36 (x86_64*), 1 Gb of Ram & *Xpress 200M IGP*.
I didn't make much attention of free ram available before, but due to
switching to *x86_64* I had to.

Certainly, the performance raised up, but the system free memory became an
extremely low (I expected a variety of decrementation, but not in so
terrifying amount). Therefore, I tried to change the situation by lowering a
video memory range.

By default, there are 256 Mbs of *UMA+SidePort* memory the system reserves
to. This option merely is not presented in *BIOS* & in the official *Catalist
Control Center* for linux(in my old distributive by the way) is not
presented too.

I've read a plenty of docs - Xorg mailing list archives, FAQ, all radeon's
driver guideline, but the only stuff I have found to play with - is option
«VideoRam» / «in Kb» in device section of xorg.conf (and unfortunately it
doesn't work).

*The question:*
       Is there any possibility to minimize a video ram value using *
x86-free-radeon* or for now it's not available?

*The output of uname, xorg.log & dmesg:*

*uname -a*
*Linux laptop 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:09:38 UTC 2010
x86_64 GNU/Linux
*

*dmesg | grep drm*

*[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-21-generic (buildd at yellow) (gcc version
4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:09:38 UTC 2010
(Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2)
[    0.973135] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    2.046113] [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
[    2.046117] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[    2.050797] [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
[    2.050876] [drm] register mmio base: 0xB0100000
[    2.050878] [drm] register mmio size: 65536
[    2.051233] [drm] GPU reset succeed (RBBM_STATUS=0x00000140)
[    2.051246] [drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART size
(because of ASIC bug ?)
[    2.051250] [drm] Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory
[    2.051252] [drm] radeon: VRAM 256M
[    2.051254] [drm] radeon: VRAM from 0x30000000 to 0x3FFFFFFF
[    2.051256] [drm] radeon: GTT 32M
[    2.051258] [drm] radeon: GTT from 0x40000000 to 0x41FFFFFF
[    2.051281] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[    2.051516] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=256M, BAR=256M
[    2.051522] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
[    2.051655] [drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready
[    2.051657] [drm] radeon: 32M of GTT memory ready.
[    2.051679] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 8192, num gpu pages 8192
[    2.052077] [drm] radeon: 2 quad pipes, 1 z pipes initialized.
[    2.052095] [drm] radeon: cp idle (0x10000C03)
[    2.052142] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
[    2.056474] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000040000000
[    2.056496] [drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
[    2.056629] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[    2.056706] [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[    2.056837] [drm] Panel ID String: SEC
[    2.056839] [drm] Panel Size 1280x800
[    2.056882] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[    2.056884] [drm] Connector 0:
[    2.056885] [drm]   VGA
[    2.056888] [drm]   DDC: 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68 0x68
[    2.056889] [drm]   Encoders:
[    2.056891] [drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_DAC2
[    2.056893] [drm] Connector 1:
[    2.056894] [drm]   LVDS
[    2.056896] [drm]   DDC: 0x198 0x198 0x19c 0x19c 0x1a0 0x1a0 0x1a4 0x1a4
[    2.056898] [drm]   Encoders:
[    2.056900] [drm]     LCD1: INTERNAL_LVDS
[    2.207975] [drm] fb mappable at 0xC0040000
[    2.207979] [drm] vram apper at 0xC0000000
[    2.207981] [drm] size 4096000
[    2.207982] [drm] fb depth is 24
[    2.207984] [drm]    pitch is 5120
[    2.208225] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[    2.208252] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on
minor
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P.S. xorg.conf is inserted as file*

With best regards, Sergey.
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