Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:43 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia driver not using AGP? Message-ID: <20041129162143.aeckc040w44g800c@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <200411291513.35761.kirk@strauser.com> References: <200411291513.35761.kirk@strauser.com>
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Quoting Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>: > On my 5.3 system (recompiled completely, including ports, one week ago), the > NVidia driver (for a GeForce MX 400) from ports doesn't seem to be using AGP: > > $ sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status.status > hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled > > I've built a new kernel with "device agp" commented out, and kldstat verifies > that it's not loaded. I set 'Option "NvAGP" "1"' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > I've read all of the READMEs that seemed relevant. Still, I seem to be > running in PCI mode and display updates are painfully slow and CPU-intensive. > > I'm running out of things to check. Any idea what combination of settings > would result in a system where the display seems to run correctly, but is > much slower than expected? > -- > Kirk Strauser I'm actually having this same problem on 2 different computers... with nVidia's AGP or FreeBSD's AGP... it doesn't matter which I try to use. One of the computers I'm having this problem with is a P4 with an Intel chipset (I forget which) with a GeForce4 MX 440. The other is an athlon 64 3200+ with a via k8t800 chipset and a geforce FX 5900 (running in 32 bit x86 FreeBSD). I can't get either of these to run with AGP. Ken
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