Re: intel kms "Failed to allocate space for kernel memory manager"

From: Olivier Galibert
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 16:32:48 EST


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:53:49AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On the contrary, I think we have way too many options and configuration
> possibilities. The more we have, the more likely some combination of them
> will be broken.

You need to be able to fix wrong data coming from the bios or other roms.


> That said, modes are generally pretty easy to handle, so users can provide
> them through xrandr and xorg.conf; I don't see that changing.

The intel driver ignores modelines if a bios mode is present, at least
for lvds. Check i830_lvds_mode_fixup.

OG.
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