I know that lately the AGP/Radeon/DRI subject has been beaten to
death over the last few days, and I hate to stir the fire, but I
think I may be encountering a different problem here.

Sytem detail:

The system is a cooker, current as of about 2000Z on 30 Jan. 2002.
   ((Kernel is 2.4.17-12mdk*))
Hardware is Iwill DVD266-R motherboard (Via Apollo-Pro 266 DDR 
chipset:  VIA VT8633 [northbridge) + VIA VT8233 [southbridge]  The
mainboard also has onboard sound (CMI 8738) which works nicely,
and AMI ID RAID chip (AMI MG80649, aka CMD 649) which also works
nicely as IDE controller that the system resides on.  Video is
ATI Radeon 64MB ViVo.  I also use BT-484 TV card, and 3Com network
card wich both run just fine.  In fact, everything works except I
cannot load  the  agpgart  module.  I have tried with SMP, UP and
Enterprise kernel, and several previous cooker editions all the way
back to 8.1. I get the following:


[root@localhost chas]# modprobe agpgart
/lib/modules/2.4.17-12mdkenterprise/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o.gz: init_module: 
No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO 
or IRQ parameters
modprobe: insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.17-12mdkenterprise/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o.gz failed
modprobe: insmod agpgart failed

I have made attempts both with and without devfs, I have manually
created the /dev/agpgart device with:

[root@localhost chas]# mknod -m 660 agpgart c 10 379
 
and I manually added the alias to the modules.conf file:

[root@localhost chas]# echo alias char-major-226 agpgart >> /etc/modules.conf

All to no avail.

I have looked through the kernel configuration, and I don't see
the ddr version of the Via Apollo Pro chipset mentioned, but I
have not delved too deeply into the agpgart code itself for fear
of getting lost (I mostly speak ForTran, feel free to pelt with
Oranges...)  However, I suspect that support for the particular
chipset is at fault on account of agpgart module complaining about
"init_module: No such device"

If there is particular action I can take to help chase down the
problem, give me instruction and I will do what I can.

-- 
*Chuck*
"Ah, heck!  I got water all over myself!"

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