Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded "xf86-ENOMEM" error

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/25/05, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > What motherboard do you have?
> >
> > Asus K8N-E Deluxe skt 754 w/nVidia chipset
> >
> 
> <hehe!!> We're in this one together buddy! I managed to buy one of
> those motherboards today from NewEgg. I'll be building the machine
> next week.
> 
> Here's my guess. If you look at 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 the NVidia AGP
> support clearly says Nforce/Nforce2. My suspicion is that the AGP
> chipset support for this chipset (NForce4) isn't in the kernel yet and
> that we need to find a patch, or possibly look at a kernel.org kernel
> for like 2.6.13/14/15, etc. and find one that does.
> 
> Assuming that there isn't a patch then we get in line with the kernel
> developers and work to get one done. I had this problem with my laptop
> when I first got it and couldn't get DMA for the ATI cipset. It took
> between 30 and 60 days as I remember.
> 
> Anyway, I bought one today so I'm in the life raft with ya!
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 

Maxim,
   I was looking at this some more since I need to deal with it next
week. I found that in the 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 kernel there a kernel
config option called

'AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support'

I suspect that this will address many of the issues you're seeing.
I've talked with another Athlon64 user who says it's working fine for
him.

HTH,
Mark

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