Comment 4 for bug 284408

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Pat Double (patdouble) wrote : Re: jockey does not offer fglrx for ATI Radeon Mobility 9700

It doesn't work :( I have used fglrx on this machine for at least a year, the last version was 8.9 on Hardy. There are two problems. The fglrx module won't load, I have included a kernel snippet. Perhaps the mtrr errors are important? The second is that X won't start.

[ 54.001576] mtrr: base(0xf0000000) is not aligned on a size(0x7ff0000) boundary
[ 61.356036] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 131.947429] mtrr: no MTRR for f0000000,7ff0000 found
[ 151.017569] pci 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 161.449071] mtrr: base(0xf0000000) is not aligned on a size(0x7ff0000) boundary
[ 181.315090] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[ 181.358014] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1896 MBytes.
[ 181.359293] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes
[ 181.374755] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads
[ 181.390432] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed
[ 376.592709] mtrr: no MTRR for f0000000,7ff0000 found
[ 450.141471] mtrr: base(0xf0000000) is not aligned on a size(0x7ff0000) boundary