Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:40:06 -0700 | Subject | report: success with agp_try_unsupported=1 | From | Peter Jay Salzman <> |
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dear all,
i just built a system:
1.3GHz amd athlon epox 8kha ddr motherboard via kt266 (vt8366, vt8233) 768MB ddr ram radeon QD with 64MB video buffer, tvio
i enabled agpgart, and got the message:
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 690M agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 3099), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1. agpgart: no supported devices found. [drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 0
i rebuilt the kernel with agpgart built as a module. rebooted. loaded the agp module with:
insmod /usr/src/linux-2.4.9/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o agp_try_unsupported=1
loaded the radeon driver with:
insmod /usr/src/linux-2.4.9/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o
this was successful -- DRI was enabled when i started X (and i played quake3 to reward myself).
i read that success with agp_try_unsupported=1 should be reported here, so i'm reporting it. please feel free to ask further questions if you want to know about my hardware.
i do have 2 questions:
1. modprobe didn't seem to know where agpgart.o and radeon.o lives, so i had to resort to insmod. is there a way of telling modprobe where to look for modules?
2. i recompiled the kernel but built agpgart in rather than loading it as a module. i then inserted the following line into /etc/lilo.conf:
append="agp_try_unsupported=1"
but it didn't seem to work. someone told me that to get agp work to work for my system, agpgart MUST be built as a module and you MUST pass it the argument agp_try_unsupported=1. in other words, you can't build it into the kernel and pass the argument as a kernel parameter at boot time.
is that true?
please cc replies to p@dirac.org.
thanks guys! pete
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