From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IAr2U-0000Fr-OK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:40:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6HHdMKl025666; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:39:22 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6HHXoLp018825 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:33:51 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d32so3502478pye for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:33:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Px4rH9Iw6iJcACRMUrxOlq647lOoFrRFLrAwfVO1QaN+/vJP/a80ALdz0kKuIdkFOnl5ffFkI+3FyAx7jnKlIefL0bM/QDu69qKGPIxr/AkKFgi6rNn8Jr/5OjDzOtVtPX2AMJSd5bp5BOQkkKVeK2YZvFvjLcyDJsZOZjjiYTc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TmgREFm/aRoXXqUcNoESHM87j8mEDjn6XusOcczjM/8ureu+w4nB/m8w+HLOUlHS4Fkhjx4mqu7VmVc48e/GGljGXPcTrRf4EtYyBC8y85nsFpneuA0KmYEqIoicZJfa04dPhpXcIew8drJiqNbT2VmDJH0XhMnEucXKHnhffhE= Received: by 10.65.95.12 with SMTP id x12mr1251511qbl.1184693628539; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.230.6 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <342e1090707171033q4feffb53j4f55bc16a65eb566@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:33:48 -0300 From: "Daniel da Veiga" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fglrx and posix shared mem In-Reply-To: <469C6013.1060306@linuxant.fr> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1184645202.6847.5.camel@orpheus> <469C6013.1060306@linuxant.fr> X-Archives-Salt: d14507f3-8f5d-4ba1-8be9-e637201aac38 X-Archives-Hash: c3411c8758ee0287f6c4dc39acc96877 On 7/17/07, Xav' wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote : > > Hi, > > > > for a while I've been seeing errors like this: > > > > fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!! > > > > on the screen when running screensavers, specifically "mirrorblob". I > > found an ubuntu link[1] which led me to an ATI link[2] which said it is > > because posix shared memory isn't enabled. > > > > Essentially it led me to `mount | grep "shm"` > > > > "If the mount was successful, then the following output (or similar) > > should appear: > > > > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)" > > > > and of course, this is already enabled. So why am I seeing the error? > You have to check if in the /dev/shm directory there is no files. > If there is ones, check their permissions and you have to be able to write on > them. If not, login as root and delete it, the issue will be normally fixed. > This is because ati drivers allocate shm but don't remove them all the time. > > Has anyone else fixed this issue? I don't know where to go next, google > > only showed 1 match! > > I had this problem because the way shm was mounted, changed it from: shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 to tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 #from gentoo ati drivers wiki At /etc/fstab, then umounted and mounted it again, and it worked. Don't ask me why, lol. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list