Re: I810 driver and XVIDEO for HD movies fails

On 11/28/05, Barry Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm seeing this error when I attempt to play a HD 720p (1280x720) movie
> in Xine:
>
> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  143 (XVideo)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  19 ()
>   Serial number of failed request:  609
>   Current serial number in output stream:  610
>
> I'm using Xfree86 4.5.0 on a Commel LV-670 board.
>
> lspci -v reports:
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation
> 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
> (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>         Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset
> Integrated Graphics Device
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
>         Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
>         Memory at dc200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
>         Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
>
> 00:02.0 Class 0300: 8086:2562 (rev 03)
>         Subsystem: 8086:2562
>         ...
>
> I've added a VideoRAM 65536 to the device section but that not changed
> things.
> I'm also trying to track down where in the code the BadAlloc is being
> return with
> little success so far. I thought I had found that I should be in
> I810PutImage() in
> i810_video.c but the xf86DrvMsg call I make does not appear in the log
> of the
> servers stdout.
>
> What is the reason that the BadAlloc is being returned? What can I do
> about it?
> What more info can I provide?
>

try disabling the DRI.  The 3d driver may be grabbing most of the vram
and not leaving much for the server.

Alex

> Barry
>