Re: [cooker-amd64] agpgart (again)

[J.P. Pasnak]

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On December 17, 2003 23:16 pm, J.P. Pasnak wrote:
> On December 14, 2003 14:24 pm, J.P. Pasnak wrote:
> > Well, I spent the last week or so hacking around in the
> > kernel-source trying to get agpgart to compile.   I can't find
> > any reason why it wasn't compiling.   It would appear that
> > everything is set to compile it in, it just isn't doing it.
> >
> > Any hints?
>
> Just because I like replying to myself...
>
> By disabling IOMMU support, I was able to compile agpgart as a
> module, and add 'AMD Opteron/ATHlon 64 on-CPU GART support'.  
> NvAGP still gives me '(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failed to verify AGP usage',
> so I've pretty much resigned myself to believing that it's the
> chipset on the card not being supported by the NVidia Drivers (I
> guess the logical thing for me to do would be put in an older
> NVidia card, and see what happens, but damn it Jim, I'm a hack, not
> a Vulcan)  agpgart loads as 8x AGP, but then promptly locks the
> system up.   Non-stop fun and excitement.....

My final reply on this :)

	It was the chipset on my card (ASUS V9520 - NVidia GeForce FX 5200) 
that was causing the problem.    I replaced it with an older GeForce2 
card, and both agpgart and nvagp work with the regular kernel.

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