Description of problem: Installed Mageia 2 Alpha 1 32 bit on a Dell Optiplex GX280 with ATI Radeon RV370. The system does not boot. Get an error that repeats and scrolls up the screen: Failed to Allocate: Size : 9216000 bytes alignment : 0 bytes domains : 2 On this same system, using the same CD, I am able to boot Mageia 2 off of the installation CD, and and KDE runs. I get the error when I install Mageia 2 and then boot off of the hard drive. When installing Mageia 2, I used the option "Erase and use entire disk" On this same system, I can install and run Mageia 1 with no problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia 2 Alpha 1 How reproducible: Always, I did a complete reinstall and still get the same error Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Mageia 2 32 bit. 2. After installation completes, remove CD and reboot. 3. The system does not boot, instead get the error repeated.
CC: (none) => marja11Assignee: bugsquad => mageiaSource RPM: (none) => draklive-install
Try adding the kernel option radeon.modeset=0
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
(In reply to comment #1) > Try adding the kernel option radeon.modeset=0 Yes that worked. When I use the kernel option radeon.modeset=0 the system boots, I can log in and use KDE.
Now that it boots, make sure you have the Nonfree repository enabled, and install the package radeon-firmware. Use drakrpm-edit-media to enable the nonfree repository. You can start it from mcc/Software management/Configure media sources. Then try without the radeon.modeset option. If that works, then close this bug as a duplicate of bug 3466.
Adding the radeon-firmware did not work. Yesterday I booted the system, added the non free repository. I found the radeon-firmware package. But a reboot of the system without the kernel option still fails. Here is the output of a query for the RPM on the system: [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i radeon radeon-firmware-20110601-3.mga2.nonfree x11-driver-video-radeonhd-1.3.0-6.git20100512.2.mga2 radeontool-1.6.2-1.mga1 libdrm_radeon1-2.4.27-1.mga2 Don't know if it will help, but I will attach the files from /var/log dmesg.old and Xorg.0.log.old. I think these were created while booting the first time today without the kernel option.
Created attachment 1160 [details] log file
Created attachment 1161 [details] Xorg.0.log.old
IBM Thinkpad T40 here, GPU: Radeon Mobility 7500 ( also listed as M7 LW ). I saw same "Failed to allocate" lines, but other numbers, and hundreds of then scrollling, while it actually succeed booting OK. System: current i586 mga2 (=beta1 i think as it was updated day before beta iso published) Tried with kernel option radeon.modeset=0 : is OK. I have the same radeon packages (except the X11.. ends in .3mga2) as in #4 but not the radeon-firmware Now removing radeon.modeset=0 and installing radeon-firmware: it boots and runs OK now too, only issue i see yet is the mageia graphic background shown during boot and have a dotted progress bar: it is OK in the beginning, then colors suddenly get very wrong until login comes up OK. I feel graphics is a bit faster with radeon-firmware. (X is set to use Radeon X1950 and earlier. (also tried radeonhd: "find no card") So the bug here is that it did not get installed?
CC: (none) => fri
Ah yes this seems like bug 3466, I add comment there...
yes dupliacte thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3466 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => DUPLICATE