Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (449 mails)

[Mike <mikedl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I started a new thread because this is a new problem, although with the same 
components :-(

I have an Abit AV8 (VIA K8T800) motherboard and a GeForce FX 5900XT video 
card.  I have the NVIDIA 6111 drivers installed and working - both 64 bit and 
32 bit GL apps are working through.

The problem is with the AGP driver.  From what I can tell, the AGPGART driver 
is compiled into the system, and it doesn't recognize the VIA AGP 
driver.   /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status has

"Status:          Disabled
AGP initialization failed, please check the ouput
of the 'dmesg' command and/or your system log file
for additional information on this problem."

Forcing the NVIDIA AGP driver doesn't help because the 6111 driver doesn't 
support that chipset.  If I look at dmesg, I see the agpgart driver message 
("Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones") but no other messages from 
agpgart.

I've tried setting AGP to 4x in the BIOS - no luck.

I was thinking of trying the kernel from 9.2, because I think it has a newer 
agpgart driver.  Does anyone know where it can be downloaded?

Any other ideas?