Re: Howto limit agp aperture size?

2010-04-04 Thread Dave Airlie
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any way, to limit agp aperture size, maybe by passing a parameter to the agpgart module? The bios doesn't provide any setting unfourtunatly :/ Background: I am using a quite old version of nouveau

Re: Howto limit agp aperture size?

2010-04-04 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Dave, Don't think any version of nouveau ever did that. Are you sure its actually allocated the RAM? Well I don't know exactly whats going on - but when using nouveau instead of the proprietary nvidia driver, freesays memory useage is about 250mb higher than normal - which would correspond

Re: Howto limit agp aperture size?

2010-04-04 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi again, Using Nouveau with KMS and an unified kernel-side memory manager seems to solve the problems :) After updating to Fedora-12 I get working KMS, normal memory useage and overall way better performance. Great that I can finally remove the proprietary legacy driver! - Clemens

Howto limit agp aperture size?

2010-04-03 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, Is there any way, to limit agp aperture size, maybe by passing a parameter to the agpgart module? The bios doesn't provide any setting unfourtunatly :/ Background: I am using a quite old version of nouveau (that one shipped with Fedora-11), and nouveau seems to reserve the whole apg aperture