Bug 6125

Summary: Half video memory on radeon 7500 laptop (Mobility FireGL 7800 M7)
Product: xorg Reporter: Jonas August <jonas>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: benh, erik.andren
Version: 6.8.2   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments:
Description Flags
Xorg.0.log
none
xorg.conf none

Description Jonas August 2006-03-05 03:27:22 UTC
Only 32MiB of the actual 64MiB video RAM gets recognized by X.org 6.8.2 with the
radeon driver, so that I can't get DRI on my dual head laptop + external LCD
setup.  I don't ever remember getting all 64MiB recognized on earlier X11
versions, but I'm not certain of this.  All 64MiB is recognized under Windows XP.

Specs: IBM Thinkpad A31p with ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 M7, Gentoo 2005.1
GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1, gentoo x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 package
Comment 1 Jonas August 2006-03-05 03:31:35 UTC
Created attachment 4817 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Note DRI failure (line 859/860) where 40500kiB is requested, but only 32768kiB
available (line 551).
Comment 2 Jonas August 2006-03-05 03:33:05 UTC
glxinfo:

name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, 
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, 
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory, 
    GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, 
    GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, 
    GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method, 
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, 
    GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shadow, 
    GL_ARB_shadow_ambient, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, 
    GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add, 
    GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, 
    GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, 
    GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, 
    GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, 
    GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, 
    GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, 
    GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters, 
    GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, 
    GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, 
    GL_EXT_stencil_two_side, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_subtexture, 
    GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, 
    GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, 
    GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object, 
    GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, 
    GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, 
    GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, 
    GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, 
    GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, 
    GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, 
    GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, 
    GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture, GL_SGIX_shadow, 
    GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
    GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x24 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 None
0x25 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x26 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x27 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
0x28 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 None
0x29 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
0x2a 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None
Comment 3 Jonas August 2006-03-05 03:34:33 UTC
Created attachment 4818 [details]
xorg.conf

I use mergedfb for dual display.
Comment 4 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 2006-03-05 08:12:04 UTC
Can you try with 7.0 and the radeon driver from current X.org CVS ? Also make
sure you use the kernel DRM from CVS HEAD as well.
Comment 5 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 2006-03-05 08:13:32 UTC
This is not a DRI problem btw
Comment 6 Erik Andren 2006-04-07 00:02:56 UTC
Ping! Any update on this issue Jonas?
Comment 7 Erik Andren 2006-05-02 16:49:47 UTC
Closing this due to the lack of activity from the bug submitter. If the tips
previously mentioned in this bug didn't help, please reopen!
Comment 8 Jonas August 2006-05-02 23:12:32 UTC
Now only 32MiB of the 64MiB is recognized under Windows XP, so I'm guessing that
I have an evolving hardware problem (hopefully I won't lose even more video
memory).  Perhaps half the video memory died between the time I had previously
checked it in Windows and the time I observed the memory halving in Windows,
though I'd swear I'd checked both Windows and the GNU/Linux X server memory
about the same time.  But at this point I feel that it's best to treat this a
hardware issue, and I'll withdraw my bug submission.

(BTW, I had tried to compile the CVS version of X but failed after some struggle
for a few hours.  Fortunately this compiling issue is now moot.)
Comment 9 Jonas August 2006-05-02 23:15:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> memory).  Perhaps half the video memory died between the time I had previously
> checked it in Windows and the time I observed the memory halving in Windows,

Oops, that should read "Perhaps half the video memory died between the time I
had previously checked it in Windows and the time I observed the memory halving
in **LINUX**".

Sorry.

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