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

[Dixon Dick]

Further information.  My Dell 131L has 1GB RAM, and I was able to
successfully use the "radeon.modeset=0" fix in grub.cfg.  Specifically:

- go to /boot/grub/grub.cfg
- make a copy of this file somewhere safe in case you mess up your edit!
- find the line with your preferred kernel, it probably has the word "quiet" in the options
- add "radeon.modeset=0" to the list of options (I added mine right after "quiet")
- save your grub.cfg

That's it.  When you boot next, the Radeon will not try to change to a
higher resolution mode.  Thus your terminal (if you are doing this on
"Lucid Server") will have big fat characters instead of nice clean
smaller ones.  Oh well.

As a bonus, I added "splash" to my list of kernel options to prove to
myself I was using a machine with this update during boot (I am working
on several machines at once).

For some weird reason, of 3 Dell 131L laptops of exactly the same spec
and BIOS and with this exact same software installation, only one of
them fails every time to boot.  Nevertheless, I put this fix in all of
them.

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[Lucid] [drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562843
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