Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:06:27 +0100 From: Mats Kristoffersen <f00makr@dd.chalmers.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AGP not working on nForce3 Message-ID: <41E19CD3.30602@dd.chalmers.se> In-Reply-To: <20050109205123.GI20686@keyslapper.org> References: <41E16DAA.8000807@dd.chalmers.se> <20050109183150.GE20686@keyslapper.org> <41E17F0B.8050109@dd.chalmers.se> <20050109191613.GH20686@keyslapper.org> <41E1884F.9060600@dd.chalmers.se> <20050109205123.GI20686@keyslapper.org>
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Louis LeBlanc wrote: >>Yes, I recompiled with just WITH_ACPI, and now it's 1 as default. I >>even cvsupped world and rebuilt, and now nvidia.ko doesn't try the >>agp0 stuff. I guess that's progress, but AGP still doesn't work. > > > Progress is very often nothing more than a change in error conditions > :) > > Ok, how about the hw.nvidia sysctls and the logs? Any warnings (WW) > or errors (EE) in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? There will probably be a > couple warnings related to modes, but those are probably not directly > related. A couple of warnings about modes and fonts, no errors. I used -verbose 5 -logverbose 5. > Every time you make a change, check the hw.nvidia.agp.status sysctls. > Mine are as follows: > hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled > hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia > hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 8x > hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled > hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: enabled Those sysctls don't even exist. > You might have a couple differences, particularly the fw and sba > values, but you want the rate to be 8x or at least 4x, and status > enabled. As you track down warnings and errors in the Xorg.0.log > file, you will probably be able to guess what kind of changes are > needed in xorg.conf. Check the README.Linux file in the NVidia driver > directory mentioned before for any tokens mentioned in those warning > or error log entries. You will probably have to try different > settings to eliminate the warnings or errors, but it's just a config > change and X restart (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace). Compile/reinstall stuff is > probably not needed at this point.
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