"Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic."

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:34:22PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:48:33PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 06:43:50PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch at suse.de> wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > Wit libdrm 2.3.1 / Mesa git (6befdca) / xorg-server 1.4.99.905 I get
> > > >
> > > >  "Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager.  Falling back to classic."
> > > >
> > > > when running any OpenGL application (intel/965G). I think I understand
> > > > the background (classic is what you would expect), since TTM is not
> > > > (yet/any longer) in libdrm 2.3.1 and it might be replaced by GEM
> > > > anyway (different story), but I'm afraid many users will be confused
> > > > by such a message. So shouldn't this issue be addressed before
> > > > releasing Mesa 7.1/xorg-server 1.5?
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I've got a patch in Fedora to remove this message I suppose it makes
> > > sense to push it upstream.
> > 
> > Interested in sharing it with others before possibly pushing it?
> 
> Surprisingly, it's not cripplingly complex, though the entire patch is
> (AIUI) objectively incorrect for Mesa, as it uses C++ //-style comments.
> 
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/mesa/mesa-7.1-disable-intel-classic-warn.patch?rev=1.1&view=auto

Thanks,
Stefan

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