Re: drmOpen failed - agp - 82845M chipset - i386

From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:37:24 +0100
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:23:53PM -0400, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 16:44 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > Frame Buffer Size       8MB     (max possible setting)
> 
> This would be the one, was your previous output hand transcribed?  It
> should have read 8192k stolen if this value was set.

from dmesg:

agp0: <Intel 82845M (845M GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0
agp0: detected 8060k stolen memory
agp0: aperture size is 128M

The aperture still apears as 128M even though I set 256MB in BIOS.

many thanks
anton

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Received on Tue Sep 30 2008 - 06:37:32 UTC

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