Comment 16 for bug 562843
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| Dixon Dick (dixon1e) wrote Re: [Lucid] [drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?) | #16 |
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Further information. My Dell 131L has 1GB RAM, and I was able to successfully use the "radeon.modeset=0" fix in grub.cfg. Specifically:
- go to /boot/grub/grub.cfg
- make a copy of this file somewhere safe in case you mess up your edit!
- find the line with your preferred kernel, it probably has the word "quiet" in the options
- add "radeon.modeset=0" to the list of options (I added mine right after "quiet")
- save your grub.cfg
That's it. When you boot next, the Radeon will not try to change to a higher resolution mode. Thus your terminal (if you are doing this on "Lucid Server") will have big fat characters instead of nice clean smaller ones. Oh well.
As a bonus, I added "splash" to my list of kernel options to prove to myself I was using a machine with this update during boot (I am working on several machines at once).
For some weird reason, of 3 Dell 131L laptops of exactly the same spec and BIOS and with this exact same software installation, only one of them fails every time to boot. Nevertheless, I put this fix in all of them.