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compiz package

  1. Bug #101943
  2. Comment #80

Comment 80 for bug 101943

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Vincent Lönngren (bice77) wrote : Re: braid screensaver crashes system with compiz activated

This is from /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

(II) intel(0): Memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x00000000-0x0001ffff: ring buffer (128 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x00020000-0x00029fff: HW cursors (40 kB, 0x 7f820000 physical)
(II) intel(0): 0x0002a000-0x00031fff: logical 3D context (32 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x00032000-0x00032fff: overlay registers (4 kB, 0x 7f832000 physical)
(II) intel(0): 0x00040000-0x033f7fff: front buffer (52960 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x007bf000: end of stolen memory
(II) intel(0): 0x033f8000-0x03407fff: xaa scratch (64 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x04000000-0x04ffffff: back buffer (11264 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x05000000-0x05ffffff: depth buffer (11264 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x06000000-0x07ffffff: DRI memory manager (32768 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x08000000-0x09ffffff: textures (32768 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x10000000: end of aperture

Is there anything that can be done to avoid a simple hack like braid to cause video memory shortage? BIOS sets the aperture size to the maximum possible, 224 MB. What else can be done, as a workaround until the error handling is fixed?