Re: Two agpgart probes at boot.

[Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>]

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 19:10, Nick Warne wrote:
> On Monday 20 June 2005 23:40, Dave Jones wrote:
> > These messages aren't probing messages per se. They happen when something
> > (typically X) opens /dev/agpgart and sets up dri. It'll get logged
> > every time that X gets restarted.  That there are two of them with the
> > same datestamp is odd though. For some reason your X did this twice.
>
> Ok, thanks for the info on what is going on.  I have just spent a few
> minutes looking at all the logs and configs, but can see nothing untoward.
>
> I don't load the DRI module in xorg.conf, btw.
>
> It doesn't harm anything, so I will stumble on the reason why one day when
> doing something else, I expect.  It maybe a nVidia thing...

Well, after all this time, it is a nVidia thing:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=59748

Hopefully google bot will index this and anybody else will find the answer.

Give nVidia their binary due though - at least they have bods on the forum to 
answer.

Nick
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