AGP Aperture must be 256Mb or more with Radeon

[emarkay]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd

In a 2.94 Ghz Celeron with the ATI/AMD Radeon 2600XT AGP8X card (This card is still supported by ATI), Mfg. is: "ati2mag_RV630,PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9586"

To boot into live CD or installed Karmic Beta, the BIOS setting of "AGP Aperture" must be set at 256 or greater.

This details efforts in finding this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1281661
also:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1283376

This happens on a native (default) install or a live CD. (By using the PC's onboard SVGA I was able to get a test install). I consider this important because it could possibly prevent ATI/AMD AGP graphic card users from being able to use a Karmic Live CD, much less install it.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

This is with the default ati/radeon driver right? Please attach your Xorg.0.log

[emarkay (mrk)]

Tormod, this is before the "Restricted Driver" is loaded; on a fresh install or any Live CD.

[emarkay (mrk)]

Were those attachments OK? Just curious as to why this is - Could it be an Xorg issue instead?

[emarkay (mrk)]

Did some Googling - may be clues here?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/368187
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-sis/+bug/34144

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi emarkay,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

Please note we also provide technical support for older versions of
Ubuntu, but not in the bug tracker. Instead, to raise the issue through
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If you are the original reporter and can still reproduce the issue on
Lucid, please run the following command to refresh the report:

  apport-collect 444824

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  ubuntu-bug xorg

If by chance you can no longer reproduce the issue on Lucid or if you
feel it is no longer relevant, please mark the bug report 'Fix Released'
or 'Invalid' as appropriate, at the following URL:

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[emarkay (mrk)]

Still using the following hardware configuration:
"2.8 G/2G RAM/ATI HD2600,512VRAM/SIS AC97 OB Audio"

Tested this morning with current Karmic and Lucid releases, at 32, 64, 256 & 512 Aperture settings as well as current "Live CD" of Lucid and had no problem booting, getting into the "X" GUI, or opening Firefox and displaying a WWW page.

Am "invalidating" this as I presume that either the newer Kernels, or newer "X" and/or ATI drivers have corrected this problem.

Thanks!

MRK