Re: XFree86 4.0.1 with Intel I810

[Seth Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

Greetings Theppitak; I have two guesses to the source of your problem.
The first possibility is the "vbe" module is not being loaded, but the
i810 driver is trying to load something that deals with vbe. Try adding
the following to your Module section:
    Load "vbe"

The second possibility is your kernel version has a different AGPGART
interface than X expects. I currently run X4.0.1-1 on Linux 2.4.0-test10
with good results. I have heard that recent versions of 2.2 (2.2.17 or
so?) also work well. You need to compile AGP support into your kernel
(either directly in, or as a module, I believe. I would suggest module
to help keep the size of the kernel small), and your kernel needs to be
recent enough. (Also ensure the /dev/agpgart file is a character file
with reasonable permissions. :)

There is another possibility that something else entirely is the cause,
in which case I wish you luck. :)

* Theppitak Karoonboonayanan <thep@links.nectec.or.th> [001107 03:22]:
> Section "Module"
> 
> # This loads the DBE extension module.
> 
>     Load        "dbe"  	# Double buffer extension
> 
> # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
> # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
>     SubSection  "extmod"
>       Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
>     EndSubSection
> 
> # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
>     Load        "type1"
>     Load        "freetype"
> 
> # This loads the GLX module
> #    Load       "glx"
> 
> EndSection
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libramdac.a
> (II) Module ramdac: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> 	compiled for 4.0.1d, module version = 0.1.0
> Symbol VBEInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o is unresolved!
> Symbol vbeDoEDID from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o is unresolved!
> (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
> (==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0xd0000000,0x2000000)
> (II) I810(0): Setting dot clock to 36.0 MHz [ 0x10 0x1 0x40 ] [ 18 3 4 ]
> (II) I810(0): chose watermark 0x2210c000: (tab.freq 36.0)
> (WW) AGPIOC_ACQUIRE failed (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> (EE) GARTInit: AGPIOC_INFO failed (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> 
> Fatal server error:
> AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0


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