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Subject: Re: Acer TravelMate 212TX Laptop, AGP error of sorts.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erich Dollansky" <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
To: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com>
Cc: <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Acer TravelMate 212TX Laptop, AGP error of sorts.


| Hi,
|
| Markie wrote:
|
| > | > agp0: <Ali Generic host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3fffff at
| > device
| > | > 0.0 on pci0
| > | > agp0: bad initial aperture size, disabling
| > | > device_probe_and_attach: agp0 attach returned 6
| > | >
| > | I have had a problem like this too on a normal PC. Just change the
AGP
| > | setting in the BIOS.
| >
| > There isn't actually an AGP setting in the BIOS on this laptop, it's
all
| > pretty basic!
| >
| I could change this in my BIOS and it worked afterward.
|
| Check your BIOS again. It was also hidden pretty good on my machine.
|

Is it a desktop machine? This is a fairly oldish laptop, 800MHz Celeron. I
went to check again though, it really is pretty empty in there :o)

| Maybe, somebody else has some better idea.

I may have found half a solution in the form of a patch,
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-December/016587.html
but I will have to wait for my hard disk to arrive before I can play about
actually installing FreeBSD first I suppose :o)

|
| Erich