[drm] not enough stolen space for compressed buffer

orschiro · 2013-08-04 08:37:06

Hello,

I am not quite clear about the following error I receive when running `dmesg` command:

[ 7145.242958] [drm] not enough stolen space for compressed buffer (need 4194304 bytes), disabling
[ 7145.242966] [drm] hint: you may be able to increase stolen memory size in the BIOS to avoid this
[ 7145.308522] [drm] not enough stolen space for compressed buffer (need 4194304 bytes), disabling
[ 7145.308531] [drm] hint: you may be able to increase stolen memory size in the BIOS to avoid this
[ 7145.995553] [drm] not enough stolen space for compressed buffer (need 4194304 bytes), disabling
[ 7145.995557] [drm] hint: you may be able to increase stolen memory size in the BIOS to avoid this

I think it is somehow related to my Intel graphics card.

I have a Thinkpad X200T with a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD.

$ lspci -v -s 00:02.0
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 20e4
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
	Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by orschiro (2013-08-04 13:18:42)

DaZ · 2013-08-04 11:10:10

I have just noticed it on my X61s, so I think you might be right.

orschiro · 2013-08-04 13:33:20

I looked into the options of my BIOS but could not find any setting to increase the memory which is at 4M at the moment:

$ lspci -v -s 00:02.0
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 20e4
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
	Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

Are there other ways to increase the memory?

orschiro · 2013-08-08 20:19:27

Created a bug report on this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36435

@DaZ

Can you please comment on the bug report to confirm the same issue on a X61s?

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#1 2013-08-04 08:37:06

[drm] not enough stolen space for compressed buffer

#2 2013-08-04 11:10:10

Re: [drm] not enough stolen space for compressed buffer

#3 2013-08-04 13:33:20

Re: [drm] not enough stolen space for compressed buffer

#4 2013-08-08 20:19:27

Re: [drm] not enough stolen space for compressed buffer

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