Subject: Re: AGP problems with fresh installation
To: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/17/2002 18:30:00
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:20:18AM -0700, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:22:15PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:42:25AM +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I just made a clean install of 1.5ZC and the installation itself went fine.
> > > The first reboot failed (or froze my PC) with the GENERIC kernel after
> > > detecting the AGP.
> > > 
> > > The solution to my problem was to create a custon kernel without
> > > "agp* at pchb?", boot from the floppies, mount /dev/wd0a /mnt and ftp the
> > > new kernel to the harddisk.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else noticed problems with "agp*  at pchb?". My PC is HP Omnibook
> > > 4150 with the latest BIOS. My other PCs (home, work, server, firewalls)
> > 
> > What chipset does it have ? can you post dmesg ?
> 
> I have exactly the same problem on my Acer TravelMate 350TE.  My laptop
> has a BIOS setting to set aside up to 8MB of the available memory for the
> video memory.  My dmesg with a kernel built without "agp* at pchb?" is
> included below.

And it's not the same chipset, so it may be a generic problem in the AGP code.
Can both of you send a PR with the relevant infos about your machines ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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