Re: 2.6.0-test2 does not boot with matroxfb

Greg KH
2003-08-11T18:14:27Z

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:07:03PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:01:06PM +0200, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
> > I played with my PC this week-end.
> > First I recompiled XFree up to version 4.3.0. It fixed nothing.
> > I found out that the agpgart/dri drivers failed to init:
> > Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
>
> Did you also compile in any of the AGP chipset drivers?
> You should see another AGP line following the above message.
> If you built them as modules, make sure you put amd-k7-agp or the like
> in your /etc/modules to make sure it gets loaded.
>
> Greg, I'm getting quite a few mails which has been people getting
> bitten by this. We discussed this briefly at OLS, what's the missing
> piece of the puzzle here, hotplug userspace scripts iirc ?

Yeah, putting a /sbin/hotplug and the agp modules in initramfs so that
when the pci device is found during boot, the module will be loaded. I
think you might be able to do this with initrd too.

But in reality, it's a user config error :)

thanks,

greg k-h