From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5EB2DDDEF for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:58:20 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 21:58:24 +0100 From: Wolfgang Pfeiffer To: linux-ppc Subject: Re: Long boot delay with agpgart Message-ID: <20080309205824.GA3373@localhost> References: <20080305163320.GA3961@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20080305163320.GA3961@localhost> Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Mar 05 2008, at 17:33 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > The boot process began being stuck the moment some agpgart init > routine started: > > Excerpt from kern.log that moment: > > [ 6.882357] usbcore: registered new device driver usb > [ 36.732011] uninorth_agp: gave up waiting for init of module agpgart. > [ 36.733009] uninorth_agp: Unknown symbol agp_bridge > [ 66.734008] uninorth_agp: gave up waiting for init of module agpgart. > [ 66.735011] uninorth_agp: Unknown symbol agp_find_bridge > [ 96.736009] uninorth_agp: gave up waiting for init of module agpgart. > [ 96.737010] uninorth_agp: Unknown symbol agp_device_command > With Debian package modutils not being installed I still had in /etc/modutils/local and in /etc/modules.conf: pre-install radeon /sbin/modprobe "-k" "agpgart" pre-install agpgart /sbin/modprobe "-k" "uninorth_agp" I don't know whether these lines can be confusing for the boot routines, or whether they're read at all by the system on boot time. Anyway: I removed modules.conf, and commented out everything in /etc/modutils/local A first reboot after the change didn't break anything, as it seems ... Sorry if it was only noise ... Best Regards Wolfgang -- http://heelsbroke.blogspot.com/ http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113&fingerprint=on