vesa did the trick; now if I can only get xdm to display something.
xdm has a debug flag, anyone know it off hand?

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Steve Woodford wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Yoseff Francus wrote:
>
> > Trying to start up X and getting a message others have seen before:
> >
> > (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (Device not configured)
> >
> > I am running NetBSD 1.6 and XFree86 4.3.0.
>
> I suspect the HP Pavillion has enough in common with my HP Omnibook that
> it's a safe bet that you have an i830M graphics chipset. There is no AGP
> support in the 1.6 branch for that chipset.
>
> You should be able to get things working, albeit non-accelerated, with
> XFree86's "vesa" driver.
>
> Cheers, Steve
>