Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:27:39 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Farooq Mela <fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of agpgart device Message-ID: <20010720142738.A456@evil.apt> In-Reply-To: <3B5771B0.D5575CAC@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us>; from fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:48:00PM -0700 References: <3B5771B0.D5575CAC@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 4.3-RELEASE comes with an agp device. Simply add agp_load="YES" to your /boot/loader.conf file, or device agp to your kernel config file. It only supports certain AGP bridges though, look in /usr/src/sys/pci/agp* for more info. On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:48:00PM -0700, Farooq Mela wrote, and it was proclaimed: > Hi hackers@, > > What is the status of the /dev/agpgart device? (I'm running 4.3-STABLE > with a recent cvsup). Is it working, perhaps using a compatible > interface with the linux device the of the same name (I can dream > can't I ;-) ? I ask because I recently tried compiling Utah-GLX with > AGP acceleration support, and it requires a /dev/agpgart device, but > the testgart program errors out when it tries to ioctl the agpgart > device. > > The Utah-GLX website all provides a tarball > (http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/gart/agpgart-freebsd-20000619.tar.gz) > which includes a FreeBSD agpgart driver (as a KLD), but it fails to > compile. I believe it was for the FreeBSD 3.x series, and has tons of > compile errors. The documentation for the driver also states the as > part of the installation, a /dev/agpgart must be built, yet I already > had a /dev/agpgart device. This leads me to believe this driver is a > bit antiquated. > > Any ideas? > > -- > farooq <fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7WHgZERViMObJ880RAn2QAKCb/BvE/IdW5vwIYI072OBPtPalgACfdP2j aIeaGybL/s04J/d2azioH9Y= =TG8k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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