Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:14:14 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test2 does not boot with matroxfb |
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:07:03PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:01:06PM +0200, Jocelyn Mayer wrote: > > I played with my PC this week-end. > > First I recompiled XFree up to version 4.3.0. It fixed nothing. > > I found out that the agpgart/dri drivers failed to init: > > Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones > > Did you also compile in any of the AGP chipset drivers? > You should see another AGP line following the above message. > If you built them as modules, make sure you put amd-k7-agp or the like > in your /etc/modules to make sure it gets loaded. > > Greg, I'm getting quite a few mails which has been people getting > bitten by this. We discussed this briefly at OLS, what's the missing > piece of the puzzle here, hotplug userspace scripts iirc ?
Yeah, putting a /sbin/hotplug and the agp modules in initramfs so that when the pci device is found during boot, the module will be loaded. I think you might be able to do this with initrd too.
But in reality, it's a user config error :)
thanks,
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