Oops! Did miss the 'modprobe agpgart' part, but it didn't make any difference in the end as /dev/agpgart is still missing.bladehunter wrote:did you modprobe agpgart before starting the Xsession ?
Output from 'ls -l /dev/agpgart' is:
crw-rw---- 1 root video 10, 175 Feb 9 18:40 /dev/agpgart
I checked my Linux books. In /sbin/MAKEDEV (the one in Kanotix - quite a convoluted file with lots of variables ), I found the definition (or part of it anyway) for /dev/agpgart and tried using mknod to create it.
I think I almost succeded, but the group 'video' doesn't exist. Tried defining the group, but the syntax for 'addgroup' is different from the one in Kanotix
in /etc/group (Kanotix):
video44:paul