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Re: use of intel-agp makes xserver 4.3 unstartable in kernel 2.6.2



> After investigating a little bit I found that in the Xfree log:
> 
> (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such device)
> (WW) I810(0): /dev/agpgart is either not available, or no memory is
> available
> for allocation.  Using pre-allocated memory only.
> (WW) I810(0): VideoRAM reduced to 8060 kByte (limited to available
> sysmem)
> 
> I also read that: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1896
> 
> So I added intel-agp to my /etc/modules, and rebooted.
> But now xfree doesn't start anymore. See attached dmesg and XFree logs
> for both the working (without intel-agp) and non working system.
> 
> So it seems like if enabling agp is the solution to my xvideo problem,
> then I have to chose either having agp and no X or X and no xvideo
> extension used in mplayer...
> 
> I am about to try kernel 2.6.3 to see if it solves the problem.
> 
> Any idea?

As Christian made me know in a private email, this was indeed a known problem, related to 865G chipset.
Upgrading to xfree 4.3.0-5 fixed it.

Thanks and sorry for the 'spam'.

J

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