From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 15:20:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB06F16A4CF for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:20:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A2643D2D for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:20:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-current-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.196.44]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004031723200601100lrj92e>; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:20:10 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id DD996E; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:20:01 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "Schultz, David W" References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 17 Mar 2004 18:20:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44wu5j6oym.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: agp0 hang in 5.2.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:20:11 -0000 "Schultz, David W" writes: > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Gateway 7200 Server with > Dual P3 500 MHz. It has onboard agp graphics by Cirrus Logic, the bios > has the onboard video disabled and has a pci ATI Xpert98 running > instead. The server install correctly using the floppy disks, but once > it was rebooted the system hangs on agp0. Is there any way to disable > agp at boot time, because I can not get to the src directory to > recompile the kernel without this option, I checked the documentation > and could not find any help there. Any suggestions for a work around? I worked around it by using the kernel from the install floppies (which doesn't include AGP). I started an install from the floppies, and then booted up from them in fixit mode, copied the kernel over to the hard disk, and bootstrapped from there. It's a royal pain, but I didn't want to spend too much effort on it because I proved that my hardware was definitely to blame. Eric Anholt (anholt@) was going to take a look at it, but workarounds for "broken" hardware implementations are obviously not a high priority. I just hope that there will continue to be a kernel available without AGP. I *don't* understand why AGP isn't loaded from a module instead of built into the kernel, but I wasn't willing to put more time into it myself. Be well.