Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads
thx, Marvin and Matthew. Actually i'm not motivated to file a bug since there already are lots of 'Cannot allocate memory' bugs filed. I also don't think this would be a debian package bug, it should go anywhere else - it is not the Debian maintainers fault that fglrx is not updated against new kernels and Xorg ABIs. Since fglrx is the prop ATI driver, the bug probably need to go to ATI and i lack the arguments as to why they should do anything about it - besides that their decision leaves a bad image and that people who experienced the consequences would dissuade from buying an ATI board for Linux, generally, now. And this is especially sad since AMD is the only competitor of Intel, and i always felt it is a good thing to support them just for some balance. I think all hope rests on the free driver now, i hope they will be able to implement some DRI in the future. But maybe they would not work on the now-older X cards either. Well, any short-time solution would probably only get a chance if ATI would release their Catalyst driver completely to the community. But how can we convince them to do that, after so many years. Maybe AMD has an ear. btw. I was told that i can't exchange the Grafik chip on that Thinkpad (T60p) is that true ? Does anybody know how could i have it done in Germany (w/o shipping it to Taiwan or so) ? I think this would be another, shorthand solution... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads
* Michael [091006 04:20]: > I have 2 questions: > > (1) 'modprobe fglrx' results in the 'Cannot allocate memory' failure, > it seems to be a kernel related problem. Would it be possible to fix > that on the kernel side ? > > (2) The previous fglrx versions worked in the past, is it possible to > prepare a working package for Sid ? > > I tried to downgrade Xorg and any fglrx packages to 'stable' but then > fglrx-source would no more build. It also seemed that reinstalling > fglrx messed up radeonhd somehow, and i had to purge all fglrx-* > packages to get it clean again. The Debian fglrx maintainers are active and were very responsive when I had trouble recently. They were also very nice when I determined that the problem was with my window manager. I suggest you file a bug with the details (including versions of kernel, Xorg, etc.). Before you do, take a look at bug 548410 and see if that is similar to your problem. If so, add your info to that bug. ...Marvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads
Hey, On Tuesday 06 October 2009 04:20:10 Michael wrote: > It still does not really work. The 'radeonhd' driver appears to have no GL > direct rendering. Google earth, for example, barfs that it will be using a > slow emulation. > > When i used the 'radeon' driver it would not enable the maximal resolution > (1400x1...@16) so i stick with 'radeonhd'. Interestingly this one does not > depend on the firmware-linux package, and i deinstalled it. radeonhd will still probably need firmware-linux, even though it doesn't depend on it. In order to enable acceleration, the firmware for your card has to be uploaded to the card's ram, requiring the firmware-linux package. > I tried to downgrade Xorg and any fglrx packages to 'stable' but then > fglrx-source would no more build. It also seemed that reinstalling fglrx > messed up radeonhd somehow, and i had to purge all fglrx-* packages to get it > clean again. The fglrx-glx will cause the radeonhd driver to misbehave as it replaces the implementation of GL with an ati specific version. If you use radeonhd that package has to be uninstalled. > > > Matthew signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads
It still does not really work. The 'radeonhd' driver appears to have no GL
direct rendering. Google earth, for example, barfs that it will be using a slow
emulation.
When i used the 'radeon' driver it would not enable the maximal resolution
(1400x1...@16) so i stick with 'radeonhd'. Interestingly this one does not
depend on the firmware-linux package, and i deinstalled it.
Meanwhile i tried compiling fglrx with Debian kernel 2.6.30-2, in a recent Sid,
but it's still the same ("Cannot allocate memory").
According to
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.9&lan
ATI has dropped support for most of the X series Radeon cards.
"AMD has moved a number of DX9 ATI Radeon™ graphics accelerators products to a
legacy driver support structure. This change impacts Windows XP, Windows
Vista, and Linux distributions.
(...) No new features will be provided in future driver updates. The Linux ATI
Catalyst™ driver will only be supported in Linux distributions prior to
February 2009 for the legacy products listed above."
However why does that necessarily imply that the latest fglrx packages do not
work anymore.
I have 2 questions:
(1) 'modprobe fglrx' results in the 'Cannot allocate memory' failure, it seems
to be a kernel related problem. Would it be possible to fix that on the kernel
side ?
(2) The previous fglrx versions worked in the past, is it possible to prepare a
working package for Sid ?
I tried to downgrade Xorg and any fglrx packages to 'stable' but then
fglrx-source would no more build. It also seemed that reinstalling fglrx messed
up radeonhd somehow, and i had to purge all fglrx-* packages to get it clean
again.
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Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads
Hello Martin ! Many thanks ! So it's radeonhd now and it even has 3d accel. I'll try it later, and tell how it works. Martin: > Try this one: http://mfluch.wordpress.com/linux-on-the-t60/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads
Hello Michael, Try this one: http://mfluch.wordpress.com/linux-on-the-t60/ - Martin Michael wrote: > I purged all related packages (fglrx, sources, amd stuff), also remaining > artefacts in /etc/ati, and reinstalled things to try it from the scratch. > > Now the status seems to be, it doesn't build with 2.6.26 anymore. It builds > with 2.6.29, but then it doesn't load. > > > > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
Re: fglrx: Out of memory when allocating device heads
I purged all related packages (fglrx, sources, amd stuff), also remaining artefacts in /etc/ati, and reinstalled things to try it from the scratch. Now the status seems to be, it doesn't build with 2.6.26 anymore. It builds with 2.6.29, but then it doesn't load. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
