lost /dev/agpgart , X11 confused.

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 5 13:59:33 PST 2006


On Wednesday 04 January 2006 05:48 pm, Ted Faber wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:00:13PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Ok, use the workaround other folks have posted for now.  Hack vga_pci.c
> > to always add the "agp" device in its attach routine instead of checking
> > for PCIY_AGP.
>
> FYI, this worked just fine.
>
> I see that a few people are having problems with this.  Is there any
> interest in adding a tunable to force the agp device into existence?
> I'd be happy to whip up a patch.

The real fix is to change the various agp drivers to use identify routines to 
create the agp devices off of hostb and vgapci devices themselves and stop 
creating the devices in the hostb and vgapci attach routines.

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