Re: agpgart, nforce2, radeon and agp fastwrite

Dave Jones
2003-07-12T20:09:07Z

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 05:51:42PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> just took me half a hour to figure out. On nforce2 you have to disable
> agp fastwrites, otherwise X locks hard on startup with the following
> (from serial console).
> ...
>
> Without AGP Fastwrites turned on, it all works wonderful. Just if
> anybody encounters the same problem.
> Mainboard is nForce2 based, graphics is radeon 8500le (R200).

Could be that the nforce & radeon don't play well together.
Anyone using fast writes without problems with non-ATI cards & nforce ?
If it works there, it's trivial to blacklist ATI cards and make them
unable to enable fast writes in the gart driver.

Dave