Bug#493521: xserver-xorg: can only use half of my video RAM

2008-09-17 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zack Weinberg wrote: (II) RADEON(0): Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory (II) RADEON(0): Detected total video RAM=524288K, accessible=262144K (PCI BAR=262144K) (--) RADEON(0): Mapped VideoRAM: 262144

Bug#493521: xserver-xorg: can only use half of my video RAM

2008-09-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 08:53 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zack Weinberg wrote: (II) RADEON(0): Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory (II) RADEON(0): Detected total video RAM=524288K, accessible=262144K

Bug#493521: xserver-xorg: can only use half of my video RAM

2008-09-17 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Alex pointed out, the flicker is likely due to the two display controllers and the accelerator fighting for memory bandwidth. You could try playing with Option DisplayPriority. Results in the other bug. zw

Bug#493521: xserver-xorg: can only use half of my video RAM

2008-09-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Zack Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * 6.9.0+git20080802-1 = latest upstream git, in experimental, for Xserver 1.4.99 in experimental Same phenomenon, slightly different diagnostics: (II) RADEON(0): Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory

Bug#493521: xserver-xorg: can only use half of my video RAM

2008-09-16 Thread Brice Goglin
Zack Weinberg wrote: (II) RADEON(0): Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory (II) RADEON(0): Detected total video RAM=524288K, accessible=262144K (PCI BAR=262144K) (--) RADEON(0): Mapped VideoRAM: 262144 kByte (256 bit DDR SDRAM) I am reading this as: * the driver rea

Bug#493521: xserver-xorg: can only use half of my video RAM

2008-08-08 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just uploaded 2 newer radeon/ati: * 6.9.0-1+lenny2 = 6.9.0 + many backports of fixes, in unstable, for Xserver 1.4 Same with this one. * 6.9.0+git20080802-1 = latest upstream git, in experimental, for Xserver 1.4.99

Bug#493521: xserver-xorg: can only use half of my video RAM

2008-08-02 Thread Brice Goglin
Zack Weinberg wrote: Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+14 Severity: normal I have a Radeon X1900 with 512MB of RAM, but the X server refuses to use more than half of it. The log below is with the 'radeon' driver, and the relevant bits are: (II) RADEON(0): Framebuffer space used by