[Openchrome-users] Tricky Problem with openchrome/cle266/mpeg hardware accel

[John Robinson]

On 02/06/2006 13:03, joe mistelbauer wrote:
> hope you can help me - i want to use the hardware mpeg acceleration on my via cle266 based 
> graphic adapter. 
> 
> when i start xine with -V xshm everythin works ok - when I use it with -V xv only a black 
> screen appears (no xine logo). In Xorg.0.log an the console I get the message "DRM memory allocation failed"
> 
> xvinfo reports no problemes (see attached xvinfo.txt)
> 
> any ideas ? do you need further informations ? 

I see from your xorg log:
(--) VIA(0): videoram =  4096k

You need much much more than this - set at least 32M in your BIOS, and 
make the AGP aperture 128M. (Works for me on an EPIA M-II with CLE266.)

Cheers,

John.