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From: Jan Dittmer <j.dittmer@portrix.net>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: agpgart, nforce2, radeon and agp fastwrite
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:10:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F10793E.5080202@portrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030712202622.GB7741@suse.de>

Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.
> 
Forgot to mention I had to use this patchlet to get nvidia-agp to link 
properly.

Jan

--- linux-mm/drivers/char/agp/generic.c Thu Jul  3 15:04:06 2003
+++ 2.5.73-mm3/drivers/char/agp/generic.c       Wed Jul  9 10:04:34 2003
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@

  __u32 *agp_gatt_table;
  int agp_memory_reserved;
-
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(agp_memory_reserved)
  /*
   * Generic routines for handling agp_memory structures -
   * They use the basic page allocation routines to do the brunt of the 
work.


-- 
Linux rubicon 2.5.75-mm1-jd10 #1 SMP Sat Jul 12 19:40:28 CEST 2003 i686


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-12 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-12 15:51 agpgart, nforce2, radeon and agp fastwrite Jan Dittmer
2003-07-12 20:26 ` Dave Jones
2003-07-12 21:10   ` Jan Dittmer [this message]
2003-07-12 21:17     ` Dave Jones
2003-07-13 13:37       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 20:35         ` Rahul Karnik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-13 10:17 Jaakko Niemi

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