FC3 installation hangs - agpgart?

[Hans Mehlin]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:37:52PM +0100, Hans Mehlin wrote:
> >
> > I tried to install Fedora Core on a roughly 3 years old Transtec 1001
> > server (Supermicro motherboard 370DER BIOS 1.1a) but failed.
> >
> > Fedora Core 3 installation hangs directly after a "linux text"
> > Fedora Core 2 installation hangs with repeating messages saying "agpgart :
> > Posted write buffer flush took morethan 3 seconds"
> > Fedora Core 1 installation works thus...
> >
> > Any clues?
>
> Try booting with agp=off

Thanks a lot - it worked great!

> I recently fixed some bugs in the serverworks agp driver that could
> explain this, but to be honest, I'm not entirely optimistic.
> That driver has suffered neglect for way too long, and unless FC4test1
> works out ok, I'm probably going to disable it entirely.

Let me know if you want me to test it on my system.

   / Hans


> The lack of documentation and test hardware makes it almost impossible
> to debug remotely.
>
> 		Dave


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