On Thu Mar 20 2003 at 12:25, Gerd Knorr wrote: > Tony Nugent <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > can't open /dev/video0: Cannot allocate memory > > Mar 20 19:31:03 linuxbox kernel: bttv: vmalloc_32(4259840) failed > > Why can't the memory be allocated by the driver? > > Probably because the nvidia binary-only driver eats insane amounts > of vmalloc memory. Hmm. Thanks. I've had a look at the nvidia docs, and there doesn't seem to be a way to "unallocate" any memory. Since it wants 4Mb of the 64Mb video ram (I assume that's what it wants), I tried limiting the driver's use to 60Mb in XF86Config (VideoRam 61440) but that didn't make any difference. Are there any workarounds possible? > Gerd Thanks. (With the nvidia driver being binary-only and all, I suspect that I'm not going to get very far with this problem). Cheers Tony
