From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 18:26:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E148E16A4CF for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:26:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz [66.92.171.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D7043D5D for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:26:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) Received: by mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Postfix, from userid 80) id 1CBE061B9; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:22:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from 141.156.69.109 ([141.156.69.109]) by www.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Horde) with HTTP for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:22:16 -0500 Message-ID: <20041130132216.k8swskk0g4oc84ok@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:22:16 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Louis LeBlanc References: <200411291513.35761.kirk@strauser.com> <20041129215849.GH23654@keyslapper.org> <20041129171611.eqs4wkgok080swcg@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <20041129225335.GI23654@keyslapper.org> <20041130112711.0w4w0sk40wg04kow@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <20041130164508.GB29924@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <20041130164508.GB29924@keyslapper.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia driver not using AGP? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:26:09 -0000 Quoting Louis LeBlanc : > On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: >> Quoting Louis LeBlanc : >> >> > >> >> Wrong. From nvidia's readme: >> Similar to the NVIDIA Linux Driver Set, the user can decide if the NVIDIA >> driver should use its internal AGP GART driver or if it should rely on an >> OS provided AGP GART driver with the "NvAGP" XFree86 config file option: >> >> - Option "NvAGP" "0" Disable AGP >> - Option "NvAGP" "1" Use NVIDIA's AGP GART Driver >> - Option "NvAGP" "2" Use the OS AGP GART driver (agp.ko) >> - Option "NvAGP" "3" Attempt "2", fall back to "1" >> >> If you want to use the OS's AGP driver, you'll have NvAGP set to 2, >> you have it >> set to 0, which means NO agp at all. > > > I stand corrected. I'll try setting it to 2 when I get home this > evening. > >> >> >> The video on my machine is still fairly responsive with the AGP >> turned off as >> well, and several games are playable as well, but that doesn't mean >> AGP is on. >> Your system most definitely has AGP turned off... and I'm willing to >> bet that >> if you set NvAGP to 2 in order to use the OS's agp, you'd either >> crash, or it >> just wouldn't work. > > I don't think it will crash. IIRC, before I explicitly turned AGP off, > I was getting a message saying that the NVidia AGP was failing, and it > was falling back to the native AGP. I'll try a few different settings, > and I'll rebuild the drivers with the NVidia AGP enabled if the native > driver doesn't work. > > The real kicker is that you have to rebuild the darn kernel if you want > to disable the native AGP driver . . . I'll go ahead and do that if the > native AGP winds up not working - no sense building it in if it won't > work, right? > > I'll post the result tonight. > > Thanks for straightening me out there! > No problem. Sorry if I seemed rude. Ken