Messages in this thread |  | | From | Toplica Tanasković <> | Subject | Re: AGP backport from 2.5 to 2.4.21-pre4 | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:21:27 +0100 |
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Dana nedelja 23. februar 2003. 17:02 napisali ste: > I tested on an Asus A7V8X motherboard (KT400) with a GeForce4 Ti 4200 > AGP8X. The module loads correctly, at last! It sets the apperture size > correctly and all, but when I start XFree, I get do not get any > graphical screen, but text mode garbage. Characters of all colors, with > no sense at all. I had exactly the same problem in other kernels. > What kernels? Are you using old agpgart or new one with other kernels?
> I played a bit with the NvAGP option on XF86Config file. According to > the documentation, 0 is PCI mode, 1 is NvAGP or fallback to PCI if > failed, 2 is AGPGART mode or fallback to PCI if failed, 3 is autodetect. > If I set it to 2, 3 or comment it, I got the same problem with the > garbage and had to reset the PC. Setting it to 0 would make it run in > PCI mode, and it always works. I tried setting it to 1, thinking that > maybe the documentation is wrong. X started successfully, but the card > was in PCI mode. I read the logs to confirm it, and indeed, the NvAGP > module fails to identify the AGP chipset and falls back to PCI. > > I tried setting NvAGP to 2 again, to read the logs and see if there is > something I could find out, but unfortunately the log had nothing but > garbage. I tried several times with no success. The log is always garbage. > Try fetching latest nVidia drivers.
I'll try to isolate problem, and send patch if neccessery.
> - Sheng Long Gradilla
-- Pozdrav, Tanasković Toplica
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