Intel AGP problems

Adam K Kirchhoff adamk at voicenet.com
Wed Jul 28 17:07:24 PDT 2004


Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> :> http://68.44.156.246/dmesg.txt
> :
> :> That's the full dmesg from when I boot with -v...  I'll check out the
> :> BIOS options next time I reboot.
> :
> :I don't see any PNPBios options in my bios.  There is a "resources
> :controlled by" option which is set to manual, rather than "Auto"
> :
> :Any other ideas?
> :
> :Adam

>     Well, can you recompile the kernel with a patch?  The offset
>     itself is fine, I think, but some other parameters might be
>     out of bounds.

>     Another possibility is a BIOS setting to change your
>     AGP/video aperture size.  If you can find such a setting,
>     try changing it (maybe making it smaller).

FYI, actually increasing the aperature size fixed it.  I was asking
XFree86 to try and grab a larger aperature than the BIOS was allocating.

Adam






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