[gutsy] gart size of 8MB as default

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: xorg

xserver-xorg-core 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu4
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.7.192-1ubuntu1

VIDEO CARD: ati mobility radeon 9700 64MB (agp 4x)

(II) RADEON(0): Using 8 MB GART aperture
(II) RADEON(0): Using 5 MB for GART textures

The GART size is too low. A value of 64 should be OK.
Is it possible to fix this?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Ialso see this output after starting planetpenguin-racer

*********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File r300_vertexprog.c function valid_dst line 333
Output 3 not used by fragment program
***************************************************************************
*********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File radeon_mm.c function radeon_mm_alloc line 216
Ran out of GART memory (for 1048576)!
Please consider adjusting GARTSize option.
***************************************************************************

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

using ubuntu 7.10 and fedora 8
xserver-xorg 1.3
ati 6.7.192
radeon mobility 9700 64MB

the Gart Size is automatically put to 8MB for my video card. this prevents running games with compiz enabled.

*********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File r300_vertexprog.c function valid_dst line 333
Output 3 not used by fragment program
***************************************************************************
*********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File radeon_mm.c function radeon_mm_alloc line 216
Ran out of GART memory (for 1048576)!
Please consider adjusting GARTSize option.
***************************************************************************

setting the GartSize to 64 fixes the problem.
Is it possible to automatically put the GartSize to a decent value?

[Airlied-freedesktop (airlied-freedesktop)]

Not until we get a new memory manager support for radeon into place. it might be practical to make r300 cards get at least 16-32MB maybe, but this is memory we allocate and is wasted for users who don't need it.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Ok, thank you for the explanation.
Is the memory manager in the near future todo list?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Also, if it does still occur, please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

I can confirm that both version 6.8.0 and 6.9.0 use a default GARTSize of 8 MB.

I also get the mentioned warning with some games.

[Bugzi09-fdo-tormod (bugzi09-fdo-tormod)]

This has at least partly been fixed by commit 5b5441f8cc119db0d1e03dd35bd06015a26270dd (Increase default GART size to 32MB on >=R300)

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Fixed upstream in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=5b5441f8cc119db0d1e03dd35bd06015a26270dd

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

Intrepid xserver-xorg-video-ati-6.9.0+git20080802.1f3eee36-1ubuntu1 includes the fix.