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Iain Buchanan wrote : |
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> Hi, |
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> for a while I've been seeing errors like this: |
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> fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!! |
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> on the screen when running screensavers, specifically "mirrorblob". I |
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> found an ubuntu link[1] which led me to an ATI link[2] which said it is |
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> because posix shared memory isn't enabled. |
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> Essentially it led me to `mount | grep "shm"` |
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> "If the mount was successful, then the following output (or similar) |
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> should appear: |
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> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)" |
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> and of course, this is already enabled. So why am I seeing the error? |
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You have to check if in the /dev/shm directory there is no files. |
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If there is ones, check their permissions and you have to be able to write on |
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them. If not, login as root and delete it, the issue will be normally fixed. |
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This is because ati drivers allocate shm but don't remove them all the time. |
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> Has anyone else fixed this issue? I don't know where to go next, google |
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> only showed 1 match! |
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> I am running ati-drivers-8.37.6-r1 |
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> [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1691647 |
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> [2] http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.16.20.html#176878 |
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> thanks for the help, |
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Regards, |
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Xavier Parizet |
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