AGP support locks X - was Re: sony vaio, crude workaround

[Nick Papadonis]

This solved the problem.  Apparently AGP has to be built as a module
in kernels v2.4.8 or X will lock up?  Anyone else experience this?

> I'm not sure that this is the problem you are having,
> but I had a problem with X when I was playing with the
> ACPI stuff and recompiling the kernel on my vaio. Try 
> setting CONFIG_AGP=m (i.e. make AGP support a module,
> as opposed to being compiled in-kernel.) if it isn't. 
> Once I did that, X started up just fine. Good luck.
> 
> Dave

Dave Morgan <[e-mail]> writes:
> >> I tried this and it doesn't disable the console. 
> The /proc/acpi
> >> represents the correct power status.  When I tried
> to
> >> start up X the following error occurs:
> >> 
> >> I810 Dma Initialization Failed
> >> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer)
> >on X server 
> >":0.0"
> >>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0
> >events remaining.
> >> 
> >> So the work around must break something else?
> 
> >Follup:  
> 
> >This isn't because of the ACPI code.  It's something
> >that happens in
> >my 2.4.8 kernel wo ACPI compiled in.  This behavior
> is >not shown with
> >the 2.2.16 kernel.
>