Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 12:35:56 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Ben Speirs <igiveup@ix.netcom.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: agp module? Message-ID: <XFMail.20010403123556.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3AC93C71.57D59A39@ix.netcom.com>
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On 03-Apr-2001 Ben Speirs wrote: > Did this question ever get answered? I have been hunting the net for > information but have not found any. A quick scan of the source files > don't shed much light either. (I can read C code but I have a hard time > understanding the big picture) > > What does our agp module do? Why would I need to load it? I _think_ it is so you can program the GART which is (I think :) a way for a video card to get access to what appears to be a contigous chunk of memory, where in fact it isn't physically contiguos. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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