From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: marc.cramdal@gmail.com
Cc: bruno.virlet@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AMD 64 and Kernel AGPart support
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:42:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050217154250.110f4615@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502171508.33052.marc.cramdal@gmail.com>
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:08:32 +0100
Marc Cramdal <bruno.virlet@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an AMD 64 (gentoo compiled for amd64) and I would like to
> succeed in my video driver installation (ATI Radeon 9250 :-/). I would
> need the agpgart support for the Sis Chipset, but all the entry for
> agpgart are grayed, I can't change anything (Kernel 2.6.9, 2.6.10 ...)
>
> So is it normal or a bug ?? , or am I making a mistake.
I have an AMD Athlon64 with Radeon 9200SE on VIA K8T800 Chipset... and
AGP works fine with only CONFIG_AGP_AMD64 enabled.
The fact is that these AMD processors have an "on-CPU northbridge" for
AGP, and the support for the various external AGP bridges (VIA, SiS,
Nvidia) is provided directly in "drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c" driver
(selected by CONFIG_AGP_AMD64).
Reading "drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c" I can see that "SIS 755" chipset
is supported.
If you have a chipset that isn't supported you can always try with the
"agp_try_unsupported=1" option (as stated in the HELP of
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64).
>
> NB: one of my friends made the test, without AMD64 and exactly the
> same kernel he can check these options within agpgart...
You don't have to be on a i386 to see the options avaiable for i386...
just do a "make menuconfig ARCH=i386" and you are done!
But if you are on x86_64, why do you want to enable drivers for other
architectures?
--
Paolo Ornati
Gentoo Linux (kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r7)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-17 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-16 20:20 Bug in SLES8 kernel 2.4.x freezing HP DL740/760 Oliver Antwerpen
2005-02-16 20:50 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-02-16 21:03 ` Oliver Antwerpen
2005-02-17 10:28 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-02-17 14:08 ` AMD 64 and Kernel AGPart support Marc Cramdal
2005-02-17 14:42 ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2005-02-17 15:10 ` ________________: " Paolo Ornati
2005-02-17 15:26 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-17 15:33 ` Paolo Ornati
2005-02-17 17:02 ` spam mails with the same Message-ID Adrian Bunk
2005-02-17 19:46 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-02-18 18:07 ` Sis760 chipset support Marc Cramdal
2005-02-19 4:45 ` Dave Jones
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2005-02-17 13:20 AMD 64 and Kernel AGPart support Thomas Winischhofer
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