Re: AGP bogosities

J.A. Magallon
2005-03-11T22:11:29Z

On 03.11, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Linus,
>
...
>
> Oh, and by the way, I have 3D working relatively well on my G5 with a
> 64-bit kernel (and 32-bit X server and clients), which is why I care
> about AGP 3.0 support. :)
>

I think it is not a G5 only problem. I have a x8 card, a x8 slot, but
agpgart keeps saying this:

Mar 11 23:00:28 werewolf dm: Display manager startup succeeded
Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: reserved bits set in mode 0xa. Fixed.
Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: X passes broken AGP2 flags (2) in AGP3 mode. Fixed.
Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: reserved bits set in mode 0xa. Fixed.
Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: X passes broken AGP2 flags (2) in AGP3 mode. Fixed.
Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode

The nvidia driver (brand new 1.0-7167, now works with stock -mm) tells me
it is in x8 mode, but i suspect it lies....

Will try your patch right now.

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