On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Ken Mandelberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm running an old thinkpad X22 with a > > RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4c59) > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so > compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 6.12.1 > > I get Bad Alloc running any HD video on Linux. However, on Windows vlc > manages to play the same video.
The windows driver already has a unified memory manager. The unified open source memory manager is still in progress. > > Is there any configuration I can do to get past this on Linux. If you are using a compositing manager (compiz, kwin, metacity, etc.) you may be hitting a limitation of XAA, so switch to EXA: Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" If you are really running out of vram (which is easily possible on an 8 MB card) you may want to try the latest kms drm bits since they provide a real memory manager: http://jglisse.livejournal.com/1822.html Alex _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
