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Date:      Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:24:44 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc>, Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>
Subject:   Re: lost /dev/agpgart , X11 confused.
Message-ID:  <200601060824.45913.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <bbe90d1d0601041339m468fb7e8xb5f5d0761b43ee58@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20060103233406.GA1564@hut.isi.edu> <bbe90d1d0601041339m468fb7e8xb5f5d0761b43ee58@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 04 January 2006 04:39 pm, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> On 1/4/06, Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu> wrote:
> > On -CURRENT as of today, and a rebuild today of the xorg-server-6.8.2_7
> > package against the new source, my Xserver won't allocate many video
> > modes because it can't open /dev/agpgart to allocate memory.  The video
> > card is an Intel I810 - 865G chipset.
> >
> > On the new kernel neither the /dev/agpgart nor a /dev/vgapci devide
> > appears (which seems to be hinted at in the comments to the most recent
> > change to /sys/pci/agp_i810.c from the CVS tree).  I've attached a
> > verbose dmesg from the kernel recent -CURRENT kernel.
> >
> > Anyone else having a similar problem or know what I'm doing wrong?  I'm
> > happy to test patches or provide more info.
>
> Even though I asked tis question twice, I did not get a single
> response. No-one even bothered to ask me for more detail. On my Dell
> Latitude x300 I had a similar problem but on the 855GM-chipset. The
> problem seemed to be related to apci_video loading boefore agp and
> somehow attaching to the video card, and blocking agp from attaching.
> Or something like that.
>
> Your problem might not be the same, though.

The problem with acpi_video is fixed in CURRENT.

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