On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 brook@biology.nmsu.edu wrote:

> I am installing NetBSD/i386 v1.6.1 on a Dell Latitude C840 laptop.
> The GENERIC_LAPTOP kernel reliably hangs the machine during the boot
> process.  However, removing only the agp device
>
> 	  #agp* 	at pchb?
>
> from the config file enables the boot to complete and everything
> (including X11) appears to work fine.
>
> Has anyone else observed this behavior?

Apparently. :-)

> Any suggestions for what this device probe might be doing to the
> machine are welcome.

Some changes to the agp probe were just pulled up to the netbsd-1-6
branch. You might try updating "src/sys" only, to build and try a
NetBSD-1.6.1_STABLE kernel.

Frederick