Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:22:16 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia driver not using AGP? Message-ID: <20041130132216.k8swskk0g4oc84ok@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <20041130164508.GB29924@keyslapper.org> 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>
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Quoting Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.org>: > On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: >> Quoting Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.org>: >> >> > <SNIP> >> >> 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. > > <SLAP to the forehead> > I stand corrected. I'll try setting it to 2 when I get home this > evening. > >> <SNIP> >> >> 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
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