Bug#431133: [Brian May] solution

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:41:47PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> Subject: Re: Addendum
> From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:25:41 +1000
> 
> I solved the problem!!!
> 
> Solution at:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/78684
> 
> It appears that the edac drivers prevent intel_agp from detecting the
> AGP.
> 
> After tying in:
> modprobe -r i82875p_edac
> modprobe -r edac_mc
> modprobe -r fglrx
> modprobe -r intel-agp
> modprobe -r agpgart
> modprobe intel-agp
> 
> I got the message:
> 
> agpgart: Detected an Intel i875 Chipset.
> agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
> 
> Which I hadn't seen before. 3d acceleration works again.
> 
> Now I wonder what this edac is?

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz