Re: lost /dev/agpgart , X11 confused.

From: Ted Faber <faber_at_ISI.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:16:02 -0800
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:36:28AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 06:34 pm, Ted Faber 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.
> 
> vgapci doesn't create a /dev entry, but it did probe.  Can you get devinfo -v 
> output?

Sure thing.  It's attached.  vgapci seems to attach to something, but
I'm not entirely sure how to read the output.  It's attached.

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