From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 9 10:15:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawaii.rr.com (hnlmail1.hawaii.rr.com [24.25.227.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A4337B405 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 10:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from csmjc@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from italy ([66.8.157.143]) by hawaii.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.517.51); Sat, 9 Jun 2001 07:15:07 -1000 From: "Jack Cunningham" To: "Arjan Knepper" Cc: Subject: RE: AGP...?? Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 07:12:33 -1000 Message-ID: <000b01c0f107$5f7c7170$8f9d0842@AthensDMN.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3B1B5286.4400E7C@jak.nl> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Disposition-Notification-To: "Jack Cunningham" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok..First thank you VERY much for answering me, in my moment of stress...LOL I did what you told me to do and have learned a lot in the process. But I now get the error message: (--) SVGA: error doing ioctl(GARTIOCINFO): Invalid argument Fatal Server error: Aborting Am beginning to wonder if the Intel 3D Express is compatible...?? -----Original Message----- From: Arjan Knepper [mailto:arjan@jak.nl] Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 11:19 PM To: Jack Cunningham Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AGP...?? You _NEED_ to rebuild your kernel ( see the handbook ) and add the following line: 'device agp' Than everting should work. Be aware of the fact you might have to use XFree86-4.X. I don't know whether or not the i740 is supported in XFree86-3.X Good Luck Arjan Jack Cunningham wrote: > Ok My first try at seeking advice/help...hope I don't screw it up...)) > > I have installed FreeBSD 4.2...have it running and am doing all I can > to "Learn"...have been to the home page and read every FAC I can > find...Found a few mention's of AGP but no howto's...... > > The issue..First is that I am such a "Newbie" I don't know my way > around ..hence the Learning part. But....I have it installed and am > logged in as user or as root and have been setting up my xwindows. The > Graphical interface works perfectly...No problem there I can go > thorough all the set up screens and then when I try to "startx" I get > this error: > > (--) SVGA: unable to open /dev/agpgart: Device not configured > > Fatal Server error: > Aborting > > I checked: ls -al/dev/agpgart and got: > > 1 root wheel 148, 0 May 14 12:45 /dev/agpgart > > I am Installed on a p111 600....128 M RAM NO OTHER OS ....CLEAN > FreeBSD.....Have a Packard Bell 1024 SVGA Monitor....The problem is > with the video card I think...I have a Intel 3D Express AGP 4 Megs of > Memory... It is the i740 chip set. I have selected the i740 option in > the video chipset option when I am going through set up. Plus every > other option(to include the AGP one offered) to see if I can get it > going. Sigh...none of them have allowed me to get the xwindows to > start. > > When I tried the: dmesg -a I got a error msg..? > > I then tried to load the agp kernal module by: kldload agp > > And now I get a different error after I try to startx: > > (--)SVGA: error doing ioct(GARTIOCINFO): Invalid argument > > Fatal Server error: > Aborting > > I have tried to figure out how to "Edit/View" the agpgart dev...but > am stuck.......I have a feeling it's because I have not learned the > "Language" but *sigh* A newbie is, according to every e-mail I have > seen in the -discussion -question -newbies forums are just used to > make all the "oldies" feel bothered or start a million part thread on > how we(newbies) don't know "any-Damn-thing " LOL Any help would be > appreciated.......... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message