Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 21:06:48 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Stephen Hocking <shocking@houston.rr.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange problems with AGP driver & sound. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009062105590.530-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200009061817.e86IH2G02094@bloop.craftncomp.com>
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote: > > Sorry to answer a question with a question, but what does the AGP > > driver do? There's no manpage and my AGP mga400 'works' but without > > acceleration without it loaded. Could not having AGP loaded be > > why i'm having problems with acceleration? > > > Allows access to system memory by peripherals I think. And yes, it is needed > for acceleration. Try compiling it in with a "device agp" in your config file > - as I mentioned, the module doesn't seem to probe correctly. This is only a problem in 4.x which I will probably fix when I get a chance. Another workaround for it is to pre-load the agp module from the loader. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8348 3944 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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