Comment 11 for bug 562843

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mp (m-p) wrote : Re: [Bug 562843] Re: [Lucid] [drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)

Same issue for me. Since installing Lucid the error message has
persisted and so far one boot failure (out of a total of 5 so far) has
occurred in a way very similar to what is described here.

lspci + dmesg attached

On 02/05/10 08:47, Dixon Dick wrote:
> I have a Dell 131L laptop, ATI Radeon Xpress 1150, 256MB Video RAM with
> something that seems to be this same problem.
>
> I installed Lucid AMD 64 Server, and chose the UEC Install. Everything
> went fine, the unit came up with the login after the full install.
>
> However, upon boot the first reboot, the aforementioned message flashes
> by very quickly, and then the screen fills with thin, colored vertical
> lines. It's not clear of the system is continuing to boot, but it
> seems like it just locks up and that's that.
>
> [ 10.057729] [drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART
> size (because of ASIC bug ?)
>
> I only caught the message by making a video of it and freezing the
> frame.
>