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 1IAgYf-0003ur-BC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:29:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6H6RhvT022560; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:27:43 GMT Received: from smtp.linuxant.fr (linuxant.fr [88.191.39.135]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6H6NDMc017616 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:23:13 GMT Received: from smtp.linuxant.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.linuxant.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B425F6A0034 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:23:13 +0200 (CEST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=linuxant.fr; q=dns; s=a; b=B+oJN9 Z8Hl+P2fuaJJR/TbXs7wt2I3F3Xsr+T+a/qQjiAKPXdP81AQHJVTpP1KE8x1SFKO +O7q/6qJNdtbwY9Ut2Z2vIr+NANv/iIk24DdjGg9xfZTr8oDKjD+iUhyK7BSVNhE ezOkURIJzZ4U+xhe3xdq4aXsExXtg1ickRcZU= Received: from [192.168.7.201] (AVelizy-155-1-21-139.w81-249.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.249.20.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.linuxant.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D016A0033 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:23:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <469C6013.1060306@linuxant.fr> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:22:11 +0200 From: "Xav'" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070709) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: fglrx and posix shared mem References: <1184645202.6847.5.camel@orpheus> In-Reply-To: <1184645202.6847.5.camel@orpheus> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 OpenPGP: id=E4D9BE0D; url=http://www.linuxant.fr/ Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig308C9214BF4B92FAF6BF0904" X-Archives-Salt: e6470329-11f7-45a9-b873-aa194adb17f2 X-Archives-Hash: 3ef837aef66475ee7dff8d3962be97c0 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig308C9214BF4B92FAF6BF0904 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Iain Buchanan wrote : > Hi, >=20 > for a while I've been seeing errors like this: >=20 > fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!! >=20 > 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. >=20 > Essentially it led me to `mount | grep "shm"` >=20 > "If the mount was successful, then the following output (or similar) > should appear: >=20 > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)" >=20 > 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 writ= e on them. If not, login as root and delete it, the issue will be normally fix= ed. This is because ati drivers allocate shm but don't remove them all the ti= me. > Has anyone else fixed this issue? I don't know where to go next, googl= e > only showed 1 match! >=20 > I am running ati-drivers-8.37.6-r1 >=20 > [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3D1691647 > [2] http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.16.20.html#176878 >=20 > thanks for the help, Regards, Xavier Parizet -- http://www.linuxant.fr/ --------------enig308C9214BF4B92FAF6BF0904 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGnGAYmSNaOeTZvg0RAgekAKDYdRGJuuluMzbg1vv46kbtSka1bwCg2jsZ Qu7GOUUtypb2zzurtK+Or1k= =6N96 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig308C9214BF4B92FAF6BF0904-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list