Ran out of Gart Memory?

[Dann]

When working in Blender, I frequently get this error. It happens less often when launching Blender with root privileges. Any ideas?

*********************************WARN_ONCE******** *************************
File r300_mem.c function r300_mem_alloc line 225
Ran out of GART memory (for 1048576)!
Please consider adjusting GARTSize option.
************************************************** *************************
Error: Could not get dma buffer... exiting
ds@ds:/$

[HROAdmin26]

Google "Please consider adjusting GARTSize option" => Answered many times

But there was still another warning spitted out by Google Earth which was bothering me:
Ran out of GART memory (for 1048576)!
Please consider adjusting GARTSize option.

Fortunately not too hard to fix, simply add the following option to the graphics device section in xorg.conf:

Option "GARTSize" "64"

And the error is gone.

[Dann]

I did google it. The fix seems pretty easy, but my xorg.conf doesn't look anything like the others I've seen.

My graphics card section looks like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

[coopstah13]

most of those configs look that way because in older versions of xorg you had to put all that extra stuff in there, but now it does a lot of autodetection and configuration, you should be safe to just add it under that section that you outlined in your post

[Dann]

Hm, I added that to my xorg.conf, it doesn't seem to have solved the problem.