Re: Acer TravelMate 212TX Laptop, AGP error of sorts.

From: Matthew Seaman (m.seaman_at_infracaninophile.co.uk)
Date: 04/30/04

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To: Markie <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com>

    On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:38:04AM +0100, Markie wrote:

    > agp0: <Ali Generic host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3fffff at device
    > 0.0 on pci0
    > agp0: bad initial aperture size, disabling
    > device_probe_and_attach: agp0 attach returned 6

    Aieee! The dreaded 'attach returned 6'!!!!
    >
    > I am guessing this is broken hardware? Anyway, in safe mode the panic
    > occurs (whenever I load any kernel module by the looks of it) is: (be
    > warned, this probably isn't really all that helpful but I am waiting for a
    > hard disk to arrive... then I may be able to build a debug kernel if it's
    > needed?)

    Alas, you are not the only person to have had that problem with the
    Acer Travelmate:

        http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-newbies/2003-September/000773.html

    Which suggests that the problem is incompatability between the OS and
    the hardware. I've no idea if the poster of that message ever found a
    solution. And the other approach which often works when trying to
    figure out recalcitrant laptops: hunting through the /Linux/ sites for
    clues, that doesn't seem to turn up much useful, other than listing a
    bunch of distro's that do or don't work with it.

    I suggest you ask again on the freebsd-mobile@... list.

            Cheers,

            Matthew 

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