From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 21:25:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560A716A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:25:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz [66.92.171.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C0E43D39 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:25:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) Received: by mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Postfix, from userid 80) id F330360DB; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from 141.156.69.109 ([141.156.69.109]) by www.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Horde) with HTTP for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:43 -0500 Message-ID: <20041129162143.aeckc040w44g800c@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:43 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver To: Kirk Strauser References: <200411291513.35761.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200411291513.35761.kirk@strauser.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia driver not using AGP? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:25:30 -0000 Quoting Kirk Strauser : > 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