Description of problem: I ran into this issue on IA64. When I tried to start X server, ati driver failed with (EE) MACH64(0): Unable to map mmio aperture. Argument list too long (7) . By looking into this closer I found that the issue is caused by a call to pci_device_map_range() when trying to map MMIO aperture. int err = pci_device_map_range(pVideo, MMIOBase, PageSize, mode, &pATI->pMMIO); Here the PageSize, which is 16K on ia64, is passed as the size argument but the size of the corresponding region in my ati card is only 4K. Region 0: Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: I/O ports at 5800 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at fbfd0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at fbfa0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Then an E2BIG is returned when the pci_device_map_range() checks arguments and the X server failed to start. I also do some investigation about why I didn't run into this on F8. It turns out recently X server changed to use libpciaccess instead of previous xf86* method. Previously xf86MapPciMem() is used to do the map and somehow allow the map succeed. I saw this on IA64, but I image that other platform which has a 4k region2 ati card and 16K page size would run into the same issue. I think the real region size instead of PageSize would be passed to the MMIO map and unmap functions in this case. I will attach a patch to do this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-4.fc9.ia64.rpm How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 299093 [details] patch to fix ia64 map MMIO aperture issue
its probably easier to just fix this to do the same path for all systems regardless of pagesize. I've put a modified patch into fedoras driver now it should be in xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-5 when it hits rawhide.
Thanks, I have checked out the source from fedora cvs and it works fine :) Any other info is needed?
nope I've put the fix upstream as well, thanks for testing.