Re: DRI/AGP on AMD64 based machine

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:02:15AM +0100, Alex Bennee wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > For a while now I've been meaning to get DRI running with my rv350
 > graphics card on my AMD64 machine. However I don't seem to be able to
 > get the right config-fu in the kernel to enable all the components.
 > 
 > For my sins I've been following the Gentoo Howto Wiki
 > (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers)
 > 
 > A lot of the AGP stuff in the Kernel seems to be locked to 32 bit
 > kernels. The instructions seem to imply there is an am64-agp module
 > (which looks as though it builds in the tree but doesn't install) and
 > possibly an nvidea-agp module. I'm a little confused as I have both AMD
 > and NVidia chipsets on my machine:

For the sake of AGP, we only use the on-CPU GART.
The (nvidia) chipset one is ignored.

If amd64-agp isn't working for you, attach your dmesg.
(You can also confirm its working by running testgart[1])

	Dave

[1] http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/agp/testgart.c

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