Re: [gentoo-user] X starting in 640x480 only

[Andrés Becerra Sandoval]

On 11/7/06, Christian Herzyk <gentoo@××××××.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I rebooted my PC yesterday my X did not come up (I made an error
> with etc-update after the resent baselayout upgrade and removed the
> DISPLYMANAGER setting). After fixing that my X came up, but only at
> 640x480.
> During the last days I did not change anything connected to X on my
> system and rebooted it several times without problems. I am running a
> x86 system with Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family
> Graphics Controller and 99% stable packages including Xorg 7.1 (the
> unstable ones are apps, nothing with X).
> It ran totally fine until yesterday.
> I tried a lot, remerged X and experimented with settings.
> I am still not sure what the problem is.
>
> There are some things that strike me:
> In the Xorg log I find:
>
> (WW) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 13409 pages failed
>
> several occurences of that with different page counts
> .
> And this one:
> (II) I810(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (no mode of this name)
> (II) I810(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (no mode of this name)
> (II) I810(0): Increasing the scanline pitch to allow tiling mode (640 ->
> 1024).
> (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 640x480 (pitch 1024)
> (**) I810(0):  Built-in mode "640x480
>
>
> Any idea what the problem is?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Christian
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Hello,

Have you applied a BIOS update to your machine?
If yes, may be you can revert ..

Also, check your BIOS for a memory limit in VGA adapters ...

-- 
  Andrés

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