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[ILUG] xfree86 3.3.6 problem

[ILUG] xfree86 3.3.6 problem

John P. Looney (Kate) jplooney-ilug at online.ie
Mon Jun 12 19:18:41 IST 2000


On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 07:14:42PM +0100, Colin Whittaker mentioned:
> 
> new shiny dell optiplex gx110, has some onboard intel agp video chipset
> 
> when you startx (using the svga driver ) I ge the following error.
> Anyone got any pointers on how to make this go away.
> 
> (--) SVGA: PCI: Intel Unknown chipset (0x7125) rev 3, Memory @
> 0xf4000000, 0xff000000
> (--) SVGA: unable to open /dev/agpgart: No such device

 Make this;

crw-rw-r--    1 root     root      10, 175 Feb  4 03:58 /dev/agpgart

 And, use a Kernel that supports AGP (there are binary modules as RPMs for
standard RedHat kernels). 2.3 has it builtin.

Kate

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