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Please don't top-post...

Ben Craig <bencraig@yahoo.com> writes:

>  --- Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Ben

> > I've had problems on a machine with a buggy AGP
> > implementation.  Try booting your old kernel,
> > installing the kernel source, and building a kernel
> > without the AGP module.

> Many thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a go and
> see what happens (I take it the AGP module isn't
> necessary to get a display on the machine?)

Right.  Some machines require the AGP support to run X,
but even then, it can be loaded from a module rather
than needing to be compiled into the kernel.