On 7/17/07, Xav' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Iain Buchanan wrote : > Hi, > > for a while I've been seeing errors like this: > > fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!! > > on the screen when running screensavers, specifically "mirrorblob". I > found an ubuntu link[1] which led me to an ATI link[2] which said it is > because posix shared memory isn't enabled. > > Essentially it led me to `mount | grep "shm"` > > "If the mount was successful, then the following output (or similar) > should appear: > > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)" > > and of course, this is already enabled. So why am I seeing the error? You have to check if in the /dev/shm directory there is no files. If there is ones, check their permissions and you have to be able to write on them. If not, login as root and delete it, the issue will be normally fixed. This is because ati drivers allocate shm but don't remove them all the time. > Has anyone else fixed this issue? I don't know where to go next, google > only showed 1 match! >
I had this problem because the way shm was mounted, changed it from: shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 to tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 #from gentoo ati drivers wiki At /etc/fstab, then umounted and mounted it again, and it worked. Don't ask me why, lol. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
