Anybody out here who has got a similar problem? I have an intel810 m/b. I had been using it with kernel 2.2.x and XFree86 3.3.5+. with the help of the agpgart module and the XFCom-810 X server from intel. Somedays back, i upgraded my kernel to 2.4.2 with agpgart support and now X refuses to start saying "error ioctl(GARTIO .. something". Nosing around the web, told me a horrible reason. The AGPGart module from intel is *incompatible* with the AGPGart module in kernel 2.4.x And since the XFCom_810 X server(which is actually a hack of the X-SVGA server 3.3.5 by the intel folks ) depends on XFree86-3.3.5 , you HAVE to upgrade XFree86 to 4.0+ to use the inbuilt 810 X server with the new agpgart module. And anybody who has ever got disgusted with Glibc-hell in linux (reminding me sometimes about DLL-hell someplace else) knows how difficult it is to upgrade just XFree86. What should I do then? Would disabling apggart support in the kernel and rebuilding the intel agpgart module itself help? This older module might crash other new apps depending on the newer agpgart ... aargh! - Sandip P.S. Those with Redhat 7.x and other newer dists wouldn't face this problem . You probably already have XFree4.x on your systems. -- ------------------------------------- Sandip Bhattacharya sandipb @ bigfoot.com http://www.sandipb.net ------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
