Re: Via KT400 agpgart issues

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:25:12AM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:

 > Ok, I _am_ using the nVidia modules (on 2.4.21) but the fact that the agpgart 
 > driver can't sense my agp apature size is concerning... (its set to 256MB in 
 > the bios)
 > 
 > 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module  1.0-4496  Wed Jul 
 > 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003
 > Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
 > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
 > agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT400 chipset
 > agpgart: unable to determine aperture size.
 > 0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
 > 
 > I'm running a GeForce FX 5600 128Mb with AGP 3.0 support enabled.
 > It seems to run ok, but its slower than the Ti 4200-4x I took out by a larger 
 > margin than it really should be (according to the benchmarks I've seen 
 > scattered through the internet.)
 > I'm also running with the Local APIC turned on (it doesnt seem to break 
 > anything).
 > 
 > Is anything actually broken or is this nothing to worry about?

Caused due to lack of AGP 3.x support in 2.4
See 2.6.0-test

		Dave

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