Re: Module agpgart not loading

[mikepolniak <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Matrox G400 video card and have configured X (4.0.3) with the
> mga driver and DRI. Upon boot I get an error message, that the drm
> module (part of DRI, as I understand) failed to load because of the
> agpgart module wasn't loaded before (well, it says: "[drm] The mga drm
> module requires the agpgart module to function correctly
> Please load the agpgart module before you load the mga module")
> 
> `modprobe agpgart' fails with following error message:
> 
> /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: init_module: No such
> device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod agpgart
> failed
> 
> I tried to give it the video cards interrupt as parameter (IRQ=11),
> but that didn't work either. 

I had a similar problem in getting  agpgart  initialization when setting up 
'aa' fonts with my ATI r128 card. My problem was solved by  compiling 
chipset support in the kernel with in my case  CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y