From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Apr 2 20: 5:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF2E337B71D for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:05:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18450; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:35:03 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3AC93C71.57D59A39@ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 12:35:56 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Ben Speirs Subject: Re: agp module? Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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