Re: Loading drm

[Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk>]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 04:29:29PM -0700, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
> I was trying to install the agpgart module using modconf, into my kernel, 
> when I got this message:
> 
> Installing module agpgart. If the device isn't there, or isn't configured 
> correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a minute.
> 
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/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.
>       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod 
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod agpgart 
> failed
> 
> Installation failed.
> 
> In syslog it says this:
> 
> 
> Jul 19 15:17:42 debian kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff 
> Hartmann
> Jul 19 15:17:42 debian kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp 
> memory: 690M
> Jul 19 15:17:42 debian kernel: agpgart: unsupported bridge
> Jul 19 15:17:42 debian kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found.
> 
> Using kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4
> 
> What does al this mean?

You need to add agp_try_unsupported=1 as an option when loading the
module.  I think modconf gives you an option to do this.  I also
remember doing this because the module recommended it when I tried to
load it.  But perhaps I read it somewhere else.  Did you snip the
above error messages?

Anyway, modconf kindly added the following file to my system:

brain:/etc/modutils# cat /etc/modutils/agpgart 
options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
brain:/etc/modutils#

Antony