On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 21:28, Jason Dorje Short wrote: > Christian Guggenberger wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 20:22, Jason Dorje Short wrote: > > > >>Christian Guggenberger wrote: > >> > >>>On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:39:49AM -0500, Jason Dorje Short wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Package: xserver-xfree86 > >>>>Version: 4.3.0-3 > >>>>Severity: important > >>>>Tags: sid > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>>That's not a bug in X, me thinks. > >>>I'm guessing, that you haven't loaded your chipset specific agp module, > >>>which in your case would be 'intel-agp' > >>> > >>>Starting with 2.6, there's a generic agpgart module, and several *-agp > >>>modules for different AGP chips. YOu need to load both, before starting the > >>>Xserver. > >> > >>So it seems. Thanks! > >> > >>But, this still leaves some problems: > >> > >>- The error message is not correct for linux-2.6. It's giving a very > >>specific diagnosis of the problem that isn't correct under 2.6 (or > >>probably, under other kernels). > >>- The X configuarion program sets up agpgart to be loaded, but when I > >>rerun it it doesn't set up intel-agp to be loaded. > >> > > > > > > would you send the errors you are referring to, back to this bugreport. > > I have no idea of what error messages you're talking about... > > I mean the error messages from my original report. They say "make sure > your kernel is using the agpgart module", when in fact the kernel is > using this module and the problem is that's not enough. A better > message might be something like "make sure your kernel is using the > agpgart module. Under kernel 2.6 and higher, you'll need to use a > chipset-specific AGP module as well." This would have been sufficient > for me to find and fix the problem on my own. > That's a good idea, isn't it? Branden, what do think? Is it possible to include this in Xfree86 sources, or would it be safer, to just put it in Debian's X faq ?
> >>Also, now X will start but the mouse doesn't work. I have no idea why > >>this would be, and can't give any useful diagnostic information. > > > > okay, send the whole xfree86.log to this bug. > > I figured this one out: I needed to modprobe the psmouse kernel module. > Apparently this is another linux-2.6 change. But since this module > wasn't available, X would start normally and the mouse just wouldn't > work. I'm not sure what X can really do about this. > I don't know either. So, your System works okay now? If so, this Bug can be closed. - Christian