agp problems in 7.0-RELEASE

[Derek Ragona]

At 02:17 PM 5/11/2008, Novembre wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have upgraded my home desktop (1.4GHz P-IIIS) machine from 6.2-RELEASE-p9
>to 7.0-RELEASE some time ago. When comparing the two dmesg outputs from 6.2
>and 7.0, I realized that some things aren't the same anymore.
>
>Probing agp gives the following messages
>----------
>6.2-RELEASE-p9:
>pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>agp0: <VIA 862x (CLE266) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe0ffffff at
>device 0.0 on pci0
>pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
>pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
>
>7.0-RELEASE:
>pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>agp0: <VIA 862x (CLE266) host to PCI bridge> on hostb0
>agp0: Invalid aperture setting 0x0agp0: Invalid aperture setting 0x0agp0:
>bad aperture size
>agp0: Invalid aperture setting 0x0agp0: Invalid aperture size (0Mb)
>device_attach: agp0 attach returned 12
>pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
>vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem
>0xd8000000-0xdbffffff,0xde000000-0xdeffffff
>at device 0.0 on pci1
>----------
>
>So what are the errors "agp0: Invalid aperture setting 0x0" and "agp0: bad
>aperture size (0Mb)" and "device_attach: agp0 attach returned 12" that I see
>in 7.0-RELEASE? I assume that agp driver is not attached, so there's
>something wrong with its implementation in 7.0, right?
>
>I have uploaded the complete dmesg's to
>6.2-RELEASE dmesg :    http://pastebin.com/f12c0ff27
>7.0-RELEASE dmesg :    http://pastebin.com/f3e6809c6
>
>Thanks a lot :)

The agp aperture size is usually set in the BIOS.  Check your BIOS.

         -Derek

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