"Couldn't allocate video memory" after update

Wang Zhenyu zhenyu.z.wang at intel.com
Thu Mar 29 17:51:44 PDT 2007


On 2007.03.29 23:28:54 +0000, Jacobo Polavieja wrote:
>    Hi all!
> 
>    I have and Intel950 chipset on my macbook. Everything was configured right
>    with xorg-7.1 and xf86-video-i810-1.6.5 driver.
> 
>    I updated today to Xorg-7.2 and the xf86-video-i810-1.9.91 driver.
>    Withouth changing any configuration now I get the message below when
>    trying to start x.
> 
>    (II) intel(0): Kernel reported 232960 total, 1 used
>    (II) intel(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 931836 kB available
>    (**) intel(0): VideoRam: 65536 KB
>    (II) intel(0): Allocating 6249 scanlines for pixmap cache
>    (EE) intel(0): Failed to allocate framebuffer. Is your VideoRAM set too
>    low?
>    (EE) intel(0): Couldn't allocate video memory
> 
>    Fatal server error:
>    AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
> 

Could you try comment VideoRam in your Device section? 



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