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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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