[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386587: agpgart/i810: xserver will not start

[Drew Parsons]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 00:54 -0400, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> Drew Parsons wrote:
> >> As of my most recent dist-upgrade, the xorg server no longer starts.  The
> >> error is "AGP GART support is not available. Make sure your kernel agpgart
> >> support or that the kernel agpgart module is loaded."  The final message is
> >> "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration."
> >>
> >> I have an i810 video card, and lsmod shows that the agpgart module is indeed
> >> loaded (as it has always been). 
> > 
> > How about intel_agp, is it loaded too?
> 
> intel_agp was indeed not being loaded.  When I load it manually, things 
> work now.

OK, that's explains X's problem then.

> 
> But why is it not being loaded?  Where is it supposed to be configured 
> to be loaded?

You have asked the correct question.

Have you upgraded the kernel recently?  The kernel's list of modules is
supposed to be renewed after rebooting into the new kernel. It can
happen that this gets out of order, I haven't yet understood why. It
might be when you install a new revision of the same kernel version.
When it happened to me, I've found rebooting again has fixed it.

Otherwise you can force loading the module by adding an appropriate
entry somewhere in  /etc/modutils (refreshing /etc/modules.conf with
update-modules).

Drew