[Openchrome-users] problems with via xvmc

Thomas Hellström unichrome
Tue Dec 6 09:41:32 PST 2005


userforum at openchrome.org wrote:

>problems with via xvmc
>On an Epia SP1300 I installed Slackware 10.2, upgraded to kernel  2.6.14.3 and grabbed X.org 6.8.99.903.
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>I then grabbed openchrome svn version (development build, at svn revision  107)
>and dri from dri.sourceforge.net.
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>Having everything installed my X log file looks fine (attached)
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>I'm using a LCD monitor at 1280x1024.
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>When using mythtv (svn) frontend and trying to play a HD recorded program  from the back end I get the following error in my X log.
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>DRM memory allocation failed
>(EE) VIA(0): [XvMC] ViaXvMCCreateSurface: Unable to allocate frambuffer memory!
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>Is this anything anyone has seen before?  Should this set up be working? 
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>I have also attached my xorg.conf in case.  I am willing to try anything here...
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>Also-  If anyone has questions about getting this set-up this far I can try to provide some help as it has taken me a while to get everything above set up, I've done several install from scratch...
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>Any help appreciated.
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Increase the memory reserved for framebuffer to 64MB in the BIOS.

/Thomas

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