Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fglrx and posix shared mem

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 7/17/07, Xav' <blackhawk@××××××××.fr> 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.


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