Fatal server error: mapVidMem FAILED!!: on ATI Radeon Mobility

Discussion:

Rick R.

2005-05-28 05:28:40 UTC

Hello Folks !

Sorry for this "broad band" approach, but I honestly
don't know how else to handle this (desperate).
I got myself a Thinkpad T42p with an ATI Radeon Mobile
graphics card.
Despite my best efforts, I just can't get this think
to work.
The server starts, then stalls and finally quits with
a shrewd error message.

I'm on the latest build of XFree86/2 4.5.0 and on WSeB
4.5x OS/2 kernel (latest fixpak) with SNAP driver
(latest version).

Anyone got any ideas???

Regards
Rick

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Frank Gießler

2005-05-30 08:45:31 UTC

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(II) mapVidMem succeeded: (ScreenNum=0, Base=0xc0100000, Size=0x80000, vaddr=0x3ce0000)
mapVidMem FAILED!!: rc = 87 (ScreenNum=0, Base=0xe0000000, Size=0x8000000, return len=8, vaddr=0x14, sel=0x8)

Looks like \dev\pmap$ (although working in general) doesn't want to map
128MB from physical address 0xe0000000 into user space.

Try to reduce the video memory. You can't use 128MB with 2D anyway.

VideoRam 32768

Hope this helps,
Frank.

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Sebastian Wittmeier

2005-06-12 21:41:52 UTC

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Hi Rick,
I had problems with the Radeon on my T40p. The only solution I know of
(so far) is to disable hardware acceleration with

Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon Mobility 9000"
Driver "radeon"
Option "NoAccel" "True"
#VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

in XF86Config. Hope that helps,
Sebastian

Post by Rick R.
Hello Folks !
Sorry for this "broad band" approach, but I honestly
don't know how else to handle this (desperate).
I got myself a Thinkpad T42p with an ATI Radeon Mobile
graphics card.
Despite my best efforts, I just can't get this think
to work.
The server starts, then stalls and finally quits with
a shrewd error message.
I'm on the latest build of XFree86/2 4.5.0 and on WSeB
4.5x OS/2 kernel (latest fixpak) with SNAP driver
(latest version).
Anyone got any ideas???
Regards
Rick
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Andy Willis

2005-06-12 21:48:49 UTC

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Thanks, that fixed my problem on my T42 with the 9600. Mine would just
go to a blank screen where the only thing I could do was power off the
machine.
Andy

Post by Sebastian Wittmeier
Hi Rick,
I had problems with the Radeon on my T40p. The only solution I know of
(so far) is to disable hardware acceleration with
Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon Mobility 9000"
Driver "radeon"
Option "NoAccel" "True"
#VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
in XF86Config. Hope that helps,
Sebastian