DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Cannot allocate memory

[shavecat]

So after delete the es_settings.cfg
its stable for now...
dont know what caused it really , and hope it will last for now :|)

Guess not still crushing after quit some games :((

[GreenHawk84]

Hello,

I ended up getting this error after a long night of configuring bezels and such. Took about 3 hours to appear. I guess delete es_settings? Any adverse effects I should consider? I am on a Pi4 with stock settings.

[shavecat]

@greenhawk84
Hey i think i never solved it .
Tried different themes install the emualtionstaion again....
nothing really works.
TRY THAT
maybe it will help (think it helps , but not sure...)
Adding this on your boot config.txt at the end -
gpu_mem=512
Or just change it the gpu_me to 512 from raspi-config .
Hope it will help Let me know ;)

[GreenHawk84]

@shavecat do you still have this problem?

[shavecat]

@greenhawk84
didnt had it for a while now...
so cant promise im just afraid to jinx it ;) haha

[GreenHawk84]

@shavecat looks like it could be screensaver related. I opted to use the other video player for my screen saver because it displays the game titles. I will try to use OMX again to see if I have crashes and will report back.

This comes up for me after a very long session with the system on, which could be an issue when I finally set this thing up in my main room for guests to play. I don't want any crashing when I leave the system on ready to go.

[shavecat]

@greenhawk84
Did u try what i wrote ?
(Have to say I just played with it a bit,quit and play some games of psp .after it was on kodi for weeks... Runs Great so far ;) )
i did try to play with the omx .. read the comments ...
Good luck
With love to hear if u got it FIX :)

[skylabin]

@roslof
Today is June 6, 2022.Not too late to link to this post.
I am on Ubuntu 22.04 on Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB RAM. My Chromium-browser was working fine (then I did some change to /boot/firmware/config.txt to enable audio. (Later I found it just needed a simple change in the pulseaudio setup). But I did not revert the change I made to config.txt. That remained there. Now when I rebooted the system, I got the DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed error: Cannot allocate memory. Prominently displayed on terminal, since I started chromium-browser with terminal command.
When I read the posts here, I felt a connection. That it has something to do with configuration. Then I reverted the change I made earlier.
hdmi_drive=2
So I commented the line out. Now my ChromiumBrowser works like a charm.
So for all Raspberry Pi experts who face a crash please check this line. Since this occurs even now in 2022, it can be easily simulated. I still don't know the relationship between enabling hdmi_mode=2 and the memory allocation. That some expert could tell us.
Note: I was on a 4K HDMI TV connected to Raspberry Pi 4 8GB RAM system.
JPMathew, Kolkata

[skylabin]

@skylabin
A typo in my earlier message:
hdmi_drive=2 and not hdmi_mode=2
JPMathew

[A Former User]

@skylabin
REgret the above post. It was invalid. The same error came back.
Now I created cma=384M in /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt and now it seems to work.
Thanks for the post made earlier .
jpm