From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: George Rapp <george.rapp@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: can't allocate resource
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:32:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A2511B.7030606@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902221941510.3111@localhost.localdomain>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, George Rapp wrote:
>> In case the attachments don't survive Gmail, dmesg output is at
>> http://novia.net/~gwr/dmesg_2.6.29-0.33.rc5, and output of 'lspci -vv' is at
>> http://novia.net/~gwr/lspci-vv_2.6.29-0.33.rc5
>
> Can you also show the contents of /proc/iomem?
>
> It does look like it's this one:
>
> pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: can't allocate mem resource [0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff]
>
> and the problem is that the kernel cannot find enough space to map the
> required 128MB region for the graphics aperture.
>
Which makes sense on 32 bits, since by default the entire vmalloc region
is only 128 MB in size.
Booting with vmalloc=256M or something like that might help.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <f1f3dd8f0902221910n2722b024pe3ec8748fd3aed5b@mail.gmail.com>
2009-02-23 3:13 ` Fwd: pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: can't allocate resource George Rapp
2009-02-23 3:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-23 7:32 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-02-23 8:01 ` Dave Airlie
[not found] ` <f1f3dd8f0902240542m58aa6adfn3fc09cee162636a1@mail.gmail.com>
2009-02-24 13:53 ` George Rapp
2009-02-24 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
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