Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Watts <> | Subject | Re: stabilty problems using opengl on kt400 based system | Date | Sun, 13 Apr 2003 09:17:43 +0100 |
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On Saturday 12 Apr 2003 8:26 pm, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Saturday 12 April 2003 20:20, Mark Watts wrote: > > > I am not sure, but I though nVidia cards were different. I have used a > > > tnt2 before I had my radeon (I used it with that previous motherboard) > > > and back then, I have been advised to compile kernels without AGP > > > support since the nVidia drivers wouldn't use them anyway (despite the > > > fact that it was a 4x agp card). NVidia seems to have his own method of > > > accessing the agp bus. > > > > I'm not entirely sure how I tell what agp gart I'm using, but I have > > 'agpgart' loaded as a module... > > I found it in the readme file of the nvidia drivers: > > <QUOTE> > There are several choices for configuring the NVIDIA kernel module's > use of AGP: you can choose to either use NVIDIA's AGP module (NVAGP), > or the AGP module that comes with the linux kernel (AGPGART). This is > controlled through the "NvAGP" option in your XF86Config file: > > Option "NvAgp" "0" ... disables AGP support > Option "NvAgp" "1" ... use NVAGP, if possible > Option "NvAgp" "2" ... use AGPGART, if possible > Option "NvAGP" "3" ... try AGPGART; if that fails, try NVAGP > > The default is 3 (the default was 1 until after 1.0-1251). > </QUOTE> > > In other words, you use linux's agp drivers. > > So it's probably not the agp driver that causes "hangs".
You're right - I don't have any NvAgp options in my X config.
Not sure these will help but here are some of the versions of thinks I run:
[mwatts@rebecca mwatts]$ xdpyinfo name of display: :0.0 version number: 11.0 vendor string: Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.2.1, patch level 3mdk) vendor release number: 40201000 XFree86 version: 4.2.1
glibc-2.2.5-16mdk
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run (uses custom compiled kernel interface for 2.4.21)
[root@rebecca linux-2.4.21-0.12mdk]# grep AGP .config CONFIG_AGP=m CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y CONFIG_AGP_I810=y CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y CONFIG_AGP_AMD=y # CONFIG_AGP_AMD_8151 is not set CONFIG_AGP_SIS=y CONFIG_AGP_ALI=y CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS=y
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