Hi,
I would like to add a bit more detail to Nick's request for the command
lspci to be run.
Open a text console type window
If it says login, fine, enter the username root and password
If you are not certain what you are logged in as, do
su - (to become root)
if it asks for the root password, fine, enter the root password
if it does not ask for the root password, fine, you were already root.
type the command
lspci
if it says "command not found", please report this back. It is possible
that lspci was not found on your hard drive. To do a thorough and
exhaustive search for the command lspci, one option is (and this will take
a while)
find / -name lspci (where this command has to be done as root)
It will search the whole disk for the file with a name "lspci".
The command line above is similar to the windows find option.
It may report
/usr/sbin/lspci
In which case, do
/usr/sbin/lspci
If find reports nothing (sigh, quite possible) then the command line
tool lspci is not on your computer.
We really want to see the output of the command lspci, because lspci
lists all the devices on the pci bus.
(name lspci is a concatenation of ls (directory listing) and the word
pci)
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Alternative search method.
Every 24hours, your computer does a complete scan of the hard drive and
records all file names in a data base. This usually happens at 2am.
If your computer was off at 2am, no problem. The scan happens some time
after switching the computer on.
Assuming the database is populated, you can just do
locate lspci
On my computer, I get::
locate lspci
/home/derek/vaioh323/vaio/picturebook/crusoe/lspci.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/lspci.8.gz
/sbin/lspci
See - the locate command reported every filename that contained the
letters "lspci".
As root, I can do
/sbin/lspci
or
lspci
Derek.
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 23:13 +1300, motivated wrote:
> > It seems the problem is:
> > [drm:drm-init] #error# cannot initialize the agppart module
> >
> > I've done a search (nothing in google) web-ferret gives me a mountain of
> > listings but sadly I have no idea what they are on about or how to fix it.
> > From what I have read it would appear that it is because it is trying to
> > load things in an incorrect order.
>
>
> I had this problem with an i810 chipset - and google found the answer.
> what is your google search? Unfortunately the machine I fixed it on no
> longer runs linux, so I cannot quickly answer the question.
>
> However of you had run the lspci command, as had been sugggested to you,
> we might have honed in to the problem earlier. I could come round some
> time and see if i can find the answer. Tell me do you have another
> computer so we can search on google while we try and fix the linux one?
>
> Oh and also, why not take the opportunity to explore the command line
> until we get X running. Reinstalling a dozen times will not fix the
> problem. Typing a few questions on the command line will get you off to
> a good start.
>
> >
> > This can be fixed by making changes to a conf file but thats about all I
> > understand.
> >
> > Nick, I'm sorry if I frustrated you. I thought I had followed your
> > instructions which I thought were in 2 parts.
> > Try this.........
> > if that works do this.... which I believed at the time I did. I thought I
> > reported back an error.
> > OR
> > try this
> >
>
> Actually I gave you the exact things to type and report back, not sure
> how much more anyone can do but tell you what to type, and what to
> expect, and what to report. I assume you _can_ use a keyboard :-)
>
> > Problem is you ask me to do things I have NO idea how to do. I've only been
> > playing with Linux for 24 hrs. If you are also coming from 24 hrs experience
> > I guess I can understand your frustration at my ignorance, but if your
> > experience goes beyond 24 hrs hows about you cut me some slack, remember I'm
> > a newbie (5 yrs on a comp total) and give me clear instructions a newbie can
> > follow. Please remember, I didn't even know what to do at the prompt.
> >
> > And I do sincerely appreciate you taking the time to help. I'm not trying to
> > waste your time or mine, I want this thing running more than you do even if
> > that is hard to believe at this point.
> >
> > And I do understand your frustration so.......sincerely Thankyou.
> >
> > Regards Kelvyn.
> >
>
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