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Date:      Sun, 11 May 2008 20:54:13 -0500
From:      Novembre <novembre@gmail.com>
To:        "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: agp problems in 7.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <3b47caa90805111854p113ae306la272de6adb27aea8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080511174125.02661810@mail.computinginnovations.com>
References:  <3b47caa90805111217n557e977ese6b31b71130f79ff@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080511174125.02661810@mail.computinginnovations.com>

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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Derek Ragona <
derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote:

>  At 02:17 PM 5/11/2008, Novembre wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have upgraded my home desktop (1.4GHz P-IIIS) machine from
> 6.2-RELEASE-p9
> to 7.0-RELEASE some time ago. When comparing the two dmesg outputs from
> 6.2
> and 7.0, I realized that some things aren't the same anymore.
>
> Probing agp gives the following messages
> ----------
> 6.2-RELEASE-p9:
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> agp0: <VIA 862x (CLE266) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe0ffffff at
> device 0.0 on pci0
> pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
>
> 7.0-RELEASE:
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> agp0: <VIA 862x (CLE266) host to PCI bridge> on hostb0
> agp0: Invalid aperture setting 0x0agp0: Invalid aperture setting 0x0agp0:
> bad aperture size
> agp0: Invalid aperture setting 0x0agp0: Invalid aperture size (0Mb)
> device_attach: agp0 attach returned 12
> pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem
> 0xd8000000-0xdbffffff,0xde000000-0xdeffffff
> at device 0.0 on pci1
> ----------
>
> So what are the errors "agp0: Invalid aperture setting 0x0" and "agp0: bad
> aperture size (0Mb)" and "device_attach: agp0 attach returned 12" that I
> see
> in 7.0-RELEASE? I assume that agp driver is not attached, so there's
> something wrong with its implementation in 7.0, right?
>
> I have uploaded the complete dmesg's to
> 6.2-RELEASE dmesg :    http://pastebin.com/f12c0ff27
> 7.0-RELEASE dmesg :    http://pastebin.com/f3e6809c6
>
> Thanks a lot :)
>
>
> The agp aperture size is usually set in the BIOS.  Check your BIOS.
>
>         -Derek
>
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Hi,

It could be a possibility, but I haven't touched anything in the BIOS. I've
just upgraded my 6.2-RELEASE-p9 to 7.0-RELEASE from source. Besides, I was
not geting that error when using 6.2. Apparently, it's something related to
FreeBSD rather than my BIOS.

Thanks :)



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