From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261471AbTH2RUP (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:20:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261596AbTH2RRt (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:17:49 -0400 Received: from yankee.rb.xcalibre.co.uk ([217.8.240.35]:4803 "EHLO yankee.rb.xcalibre.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261556AbTH2RP3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:15:29 -0400 Envelope-to: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alistair J Strachan To: Rahul Karnik Subject: Re: Weird problem with nforce2 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:15:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <3F4F54F2.4080506@ihme.org> <3F4F5B1B.1030909@genebrew.com> In-Reply-To: <3F4F5B1B.1030909@genebrew.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200308291815.32082.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 29 August 2003 14:54, Rahul Karnik wrote: > Markus Hästbacka wrote: > > My chipset is NForce2, and needs NVIDIA NForce/NForce2 so the agp > > can work with full power. Thank you. > > This is not true; AGP works perfectly fine with the in-kernel drivers. > You can set your video card to use the in-kernel AGP even if it is > Nvidia, I think (use the NvAgp option in XF86Config). > > If not, maybe the patch has not been updated for the latest kernels, and > you will have to wait for someone to do so. In that case, this list is > not the place to ask. > The patch is fully up to date, I'm running 2.6.0-test4-mm1. nForce2 AGPGART plus the binary NVIDIA drivers kills my box on startup. I just disabled AGPGART and used NVAGP provided with the drivers and I get working AGP 8x. Anybody else with this? Cheers, Alistair.