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I checked all of the following and found them matching perfectly, in the |
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end it was a simple change of the intel-agp module's name that had my |
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system in fits. Thanks for all of your help everyone. |
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Now on to setting up the new sound system... |
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> Check /etc/udev/50-udev.rules. You should have a line that says: |
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> KERNEL="agpgart", NAME="misc/%k", SYMLINK="%k" |
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> A quick explanation of how udev works may help you find the real problem |
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> here: |
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> For drivers compiled into the kernel, their device nodes get created |
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> either: |
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> 1. permanently by creating the device nodes manually and using the |
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> tarball feature in /etc/conf.d/rc |
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> 2. When udevstart is executed by /sbin/rc during startup |
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> For modules, the device nodes are created when the kernel runs |
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> /sbin/udevsend when the module is loaded. You *must* have hotplug |
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> support in the kernel for this though. |
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> You can cause udev to generate debug messages by setting "udev_log = 7" |
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> in /etc/udev/udev.conf. The debug output goes to /var/log/messages. |
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>>-genkernel --udev --menuconfig all will not show me an option that refers |
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>>to AGP anything, is this a bus? |
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> Well, in the normal kernel configuration, It is under "Device |
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> drivers->Character devices->/dev/apgart". |
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> You need both AGPGART and the chipset specific driver. For example, my |
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> config has: |
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> carcharias linux # grep AGP /usr/src/linux/.config |
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> CONFIG_AGP=y |
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> # CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set |
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> # CONFIG_AGP_ATI is not set |
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> # CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set |
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> # CONFIG_AGP_AMD64 is not set |
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> CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y |
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> # CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA is not set |
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> # CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set |
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> # CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set |
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> # CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set |
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> # CONFIG_AGP_EFFICEON is not set |
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>>-I tried compiling the kernel directly once and got a kernel panic, I |
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>>don't remember if AGP was mentioned in that case. |
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> Most common cause of this is not compiling the required drivers for your |
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> root filesystem (disk and filesystem drivers) into your kernel. Such |
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> drivers cannot be modules without a great deal of effort. |
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> -Richard |
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