Intel 965G memory allocation woes

[Alan Hourihane]

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 16:36 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 16:58 -0400, Ryan Richter wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 04:00:19AM +0300, xorg-request at lists.freedesktop.org wrote:
> > > > (II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
> > > > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
> > > > dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: _glapi_Dispatch
> > > > (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
> > > 
> > > This is bad. Where did you get your Xorg and Mesa binaries? Are they
> > > self-compiled, distro, or third-party packages? However, that's not your
> > > problem. This is:
> > 
> > It turns out I was loading GLcore at the wrong time or something.
> > Anyway, this is fixed now.
> 
> Right, you never need a Load "GLcore" line.
> 
> > > > (II) I810(0): detected 7676 kB stolen memory.
> > > > (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such device)
> > > > (WW) I810(0): /dev/agpgart is either not available, or no memory is available
> > > > for allocation.  Using pre-allocated memory only.
> > > 
> > > You need an updated agpgart. See www.intellinuxgraphics.org for tarballs
> > > of the kernel AGP code that recognize 965G PCI IDs.
> > 
> > Aha, kernel 2.6.19-rc1 has what I need.  Now I nearly have DRI working,
> > the remaining obstacle being a missing 965 DRI driver in Debian.
> > 
> > It seems the VideoRAM option is still being ignored, but now it's
> > allocating 64MB which is OK.  I'm still getting some warnings, are these
> > anything to worry about?
> > 
> > (WW) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 1 pages failed
> > (WW) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 4 pages failed
> > (WW) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 16 pages failed
> > (WW) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 8 pages failed
> > (WW) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 1024 pages failed
> > (WW) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 1024 pages failed
> > (WW) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 12385 pages failed
> 
> Warnings like these have been fixed after the 1.6.5 release.  We need to
> roll a new release, but haven't had the time yet.

I already have. It's done in 1.7.0.

Alan.