Re: PROBLEM: `modprobe agpgart` locks machine badly

[Alex Brotman <atbrotman@earthlink.net>]

well lets assume i wanted to use 'e0000000'(based on win32) as my value
for region 0 on PCI device 00:00.0 .. How would i use setpci to
manipulate those settings?  The man page wasn't much help.  Thanks.

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 03:35, Diego SANTA CRUZ wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 13:50, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On 14 May 2002 06:11, Diego SANTA CRUZ wrote:
> > > I did a bit of debugging some time ago with the datasheets from intel.
> > > If i remember well, the problem was that the base of the aperture is not
> > > initialized by the BIOS (i.e. the APBASE register of the AGP bridge).
> > >
> > > This is visible in the lspci listing above, in that the Region 0 memory
> > > is "<unassigned>". On the machines that I have seen with agpgart
> > > working, the address of Region 0 is the address that appears in the
> > > APBASE register.
> > 
> > Can it be set manually with setpci?
> 
> Not that I know. Besides, what would be the correct value? However, my
> knowledge of hardware programming in nearly zero so...
> 
> Best,
> 
> Diego
> 
> > --
> > vda
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