On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Fernando Alvarado <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@...> writes: > >> >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Daniel Klaffenbach >> <danielklaffenb...@...> wrote: >> > Dave Airlie wrote: >> >> from memory it was rs480+4GB RAM where the issue arose. >> > I only have 2GB of memory in my laptop (still 64bit system). I also >> > lowered the graphics memory in BIOS to 32MB, but the error still appears. >> > >> > Alex Deucher wrote: >> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27529 >> >> is likely related. >> > Possibly. Sometimes I also get screen corruptions but only in KMail. I >> > forgot to mention that the error message comes up right at boot time >> > (even before the framebuffer with Tux kicks in). >> >> The dmesg error is misleading. It's just telling you the gart >> aperture has been limited to 32 MB by the driver. We should probably >> make that an info message or remove it altogether. >> >> Alex >> > > So this thing has nothing to do with the instability of the OS? nothung to do > with the randomized corrupt screen at start up before the Ubuntu welcome > screen > appears? I'm sorry but I'm kind of new at this things: what's happen to the > performance of the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 with the Gart being limited to that > size? > I've just get to this site from here > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/562843 > > Regards and thanks for the help
Make sure your kernel has these patches: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=8d369bb196f1f9111cb7ab839d4f420378fa7b30 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=833ee5c4ab36937a99e63935d7f06bc2c1f9343b Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
