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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:41:30 +0000
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        hxc@planet.nl
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
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hxc@planet.nl wrote:

> In case you haven't noticed I am a total FreeBSD n00b ;). How can I 
> solve this error message? Thanks in advance!:
>
> Error message
> login: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU 
> and OS kernel
> NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended.

Unless I am misunderstanding, you can't.  See 
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=52388 messages #4 and 
#6.  Changes are required to the FreeBSD kernel as well as to the NVidia 
driver.  
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html

I have no idea what effect this has on 3D acceleration of any kind; I 
only use the driver because the nv driver available when I got the card 
locked up.  Newer Nvidia drivers do as well 
(http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=73644)

For reference, with a GT6600 and an older nvidia driver I get ~4700fps.  
I neither know nor care whether that is good or not; I can run X which 
is all I care about.  I use Windows for games.

hth,

--Alex





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