> > 64M > > Ok that explains it. > good. i'll add some more. > > > You may be able to increase that amount by loading agpgart earlier in the > > > boot process. > > > > > > > how does it work actually? it reserves physical ram for this? what's that for? > > never understood that. thought it was just video ram mapped to cpu mem space. > > The AGP GART makes fragmented system memory look contiguous to the > graphics card. > > It's not related to video RAM except in the sence that most video cards > can use both types of memory. > > On Matrox cards DMA buffers _must_ be in system memory. The accelerator > can also use system memory just like video memory. > > > > The other part is actually the dri driver. The amount of AGP memory > > > seems to be hardcoded to 64M. Change MGA_DEFAULT_AGP_SIZE in > > > Mesa/src/drv/mga/server/mga_dri.h to something more appropriate for your > > > system. > > > > changed to 32M and same error > > 32M > 27M > > > changed to 16M which made the app start, but froze the app. > > after killing and restarting, the machine hung. > > Hmm. Did the app use textures? >
don't think so. df_gears > You G450 is an AGP card, right? PCI cards are not supported. > yes, it's agp. good to know pci cards are not supported. i was on the verge of bying one actually.
