On Saturday, 23. December 2006 18:23, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 09:12, Jörg Becker wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using the 2.6.18-3-amd64 image on my machine. But unfortunately > > this kernel lacks 965 support in the agpgart / intel-agp module (see > > linux-source-2.6.18/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c). > > > > Any suggestions how to get agpgart working with the popular 965 > > chipset in etch? > > I had to rebuild the kernel with 2.6.19 (which is the first kernel to > have support for the intel agp device). > > You will need the "kernel-package" package. > > Download the source of the kernel from one of the kernel.org mirrors and > then expand it into a directory (say) ~/src > > copy /boot/config... from your existing debian machine into > ~/src/.config > > then make menuconfig (or other kernel config tool). > > I have an Intel DG965SS motherboard and in order to allow it to > recognise my IDE DVD RW (I have SATA hard drives) I had to make IDE > support builtin (as opposed to a module) AND the use "all-generic-ide" > boot parameter > > then use make-kpkg to build you a deb for your machine which you then > install > > (There are full instructions in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz)
Thank you very much! The 2.6.19 sources are the solution. I have not rebuild my own kernel, but only the intel-agp module (for this I merged the 2.6.19.1 intel-agp.c with the debian 2.6.18 sources). So I'm working now with an original debian 2.6.18 kernel + my own intel-agp module. After insmod of my new intel-agp module 'dmesg | grep agp' report my 965 chipset: Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 965Q Chipset. agpgart: Detected 7676K stolen memory. agpgart: AGP aperture is 512M @ 0xc0000000 Since the 965 chipset is a very common and popular one and my solution means only adding a couple of lines of code (from a released kernel, so it should be tested and installed on some machines) I put my solution as a wish on the debian-kernel list. I didn't get any answer yet but I'm still hoping etch will support popular hardware released 6 month ago. Jörg
