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Re: agp and Intel Q45 chipset.



2009/1/22 Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>:
>
> mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost said:
>> agp0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x0
>
> That's too small.
> So the driver seems to misunderstand the chip.
>
no. the BIOS should set a field in the graphic card memory space to
report the AGP size. This field is never set and thus the driver
cannot determine the memory size (either 256MB or 512MB) [0]. X don't
care about this.

 - Arnaud

[0]: I might be wrong, but it is the conclusion I reached comparing
the Intel doc and the actual output of PCI register value.


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