Re: intel xserver fails to start after 5.99.29->5.99.39 upgrade

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost>]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Iain Hibbert wrote:

> just upgraded my system from 5.99.29 (early June) to 5.99.39 (yesterday)
> and Xserver is failing to start (with either xdm or startx). I have Intel
> i945GM hardware (in Thinkpad T60), and have tried disabling DRI, Tiling
> and FramebufferCompression with no effect. The pertinent failure shown in
> the Xorg.0.log seems to be
>
> (==) intel(0): VideoRam: 262144 KB
> (II) intel(0): Attempting memory allocation with untiled buffers.
> (WW) intel(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 107 pages failed
>       (Invalid argument)
> (WW) intel(0): Failed to allocate fake bufmgr space.
> (II) intel(0): Untiled allocation failed.
> (EE) intel(0): Couldn't allocate video memory

This is related to recent paddr_t changes causing AGP allocations to fail

iain