[Nouveau] "(EE) NOUVEAU(0): Unable to allocate GART memory" (TNT-2)

Tue Nov 16 15:30:46 PST 2010

Anders Eriksson <aeriksson at fastmail.fm> writes:

> I recently discovered $subject in my xorg logs. Any idea what it means and how 
> to get rid of it? Google suggests changing BIOS parameters but my bios has no 
> agp related options (this is a P-II machine from ca 2000).
>
Can you boot with "drm.debug=3 log_buf_len=512k" in your kernel command
line, start X and attach the full output from "dmesg"?

>
> Some data attached.
>
> /anders
>
>
>>dmesg | egrep '(gart|drm|nouveau)'
> [    9.099026] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
> [    9.154475] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 440BX Chipset
> [    9.189754] PM: Adding info for No Bus:agpgart
> [    9.199242] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x44000000
> [    9.231120] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [    9.277291] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> [    9.883226] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected an NV 0 generation card (0x20154000)
> [    9.911229] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PRAMIN
> [   10.081464] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... appears to be valid
> [   10.150587] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: BMP BIOS found
> [   10.151970] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: BMP version 5.1
> [   10.154050] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Bios version 02.05.17.06
> [   10.155560] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Assuming a CRT output exists
> [   10.157784] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Probing TV encoders on I2C bus: 1
> [   10.190521] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: No TV encoders found.
> [   10.250904] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected 16MiB VRAM
> [   10.430881] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 1.0 bridge
> [   10.435597] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 2x mode
> [   10.445600] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 2x mode
> [   10.447590] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 64 MiB GART (aperture)
> [   10.456054] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 0
> [   10.616818] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 0
> [   10.618966] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Saving VGA fonts
> [   10.733936] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected a VGA connector
> [   10.763794] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 0)
> [   11.146793] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: allocated 1680x1050 fb: 0x45000, bo e73e3a00
> [   11.333727] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on vga encoder (output 0)
> [   11.334038] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Output VGA-1 is running on CRTC 0 using output @
> [   12.026634] fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
> [   12.029063] drm: registered panic notifier
> [   12.050856] [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.16 20090420 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
>
>
> xorg log:
> [  1393.179] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Opened GPU channel 1
> [  1393.183] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
> [  1393.184] (II) NOUVEAU(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: nouveau_vieux
> [  1393.184] (II) NOUVEAU(0): GART: 64MiB available
> [  1393.185] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): Unable to allocate GART memory
> [  1393.211] (II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps
> [  1393.211] (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
> [  1393.211] (II)         Solid
> [  1393.211] (II)         Copy
> [  1393.211] (II)         UploadToScreen
> [  1393.212] (II)         DownloadFromScreen
> [  1393.212] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Backing store disabled
> [  1393.212] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Silken mouse enabled
> [  1393.213] (**) NOUVEAU(0): DPMS enabled
> [  1393.213] (II) NOUVEAU(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
>
>
>
> lspci -v
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
>         Memory at 44000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>         Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0
>         Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
>
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
>         Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
>         Memory behind bridge: 40000000-40ffffff
>         Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 42000000-43ffffff
>
> 00:03.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: RaLink Device 2560
>         Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 66, IRQ 3
>         Memory at 48000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>         Kernel driver in use: rt2500pci
>         Kernel modules: rt2500pci
>
> 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 1 (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Sonic Impact A3D
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>         Memory at 41000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
>         I/O ports at 10b0 [size=8]
>         I/O ports at 10b8 [size=8]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>         Kernel driver in use: au8820
>
> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
>         Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device b11e
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
>         I/O ports at 1000 [size=128]
>         Memory at 41200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
>         [virtual] Expansion ROM at 28000000 [disabled] [size=256K]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>         Kernel driver in use: tulip
>
> 00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
>
> 00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
>         [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
>         [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
>         [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
>         [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
>         I/O ports at 10a0 [size=16]
>         Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
>
> 00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>         I/O ports at 1080 [size=32]
>         Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
>
> 00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
>         Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
>         Kernel modules: i2c-piix4
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>         Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Compaq NVIDIA TNT2 Pro
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>         Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         Memory at 42000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
>         Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
>         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
>         Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
>         Kernel driver in use: nouveau
>
>
>
>
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