Re: PROBLEM: `modprobe agpgart` locks machine badly

Diego SANTA CRUZ (Diego.SantaCruz@epfl.ch)
15 May 2002 09:35:06 +0200


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

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