From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754069AbZBWHdb (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:33:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753536AbZBWHdU (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:33:20 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58875 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752482AbZBWHdU (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:33:20 -0500 Message-ID: <49A2511B.7030606@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:32:43 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: George Rapp , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: can't allocate resource References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.