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[Curtis Rey <crey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday 12 September 2003 16:50, Jan Elders wrote:
> On Friday 12 September 2003 11:40, Marshall Heartley wrote:
> > <snip>
> > I haven't been following this too closely but I know that my wife's
> > machine requires a parameter in her XF86Config file in order for the
> > nvidia drivers to work without a blackscreen.
> >
> > I had to add the parameter Option "NvAGP" "1" to get it to work.  This
> > makes the system use nvidia's AGP support instead of agpgart.  If the
> > number stated doesn't help, you can try putting a 2 there instead of the
> > 1.  The 2 will tell the system to load the agpgart module.  Be sure to
> > switch to runlevel 3 then to 5 so the system will load up the appropiate
> > module.
> >
> > Just something to try.
>
> Marshall,
> Where did you put this parameter ?
> Is it in the "Device" Section ?

Yes, here's what you need to look for:


Section "Device"
  BoardName    "GeForce3 Ti 200"
  Driver       "nvidia"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option        "CursorShadowAlpha" "64"
  Option        "CursorShadowXOffset" "4"
  Option        "DigitalVibrance" "175"
  Option        "CursorShadow" "1"
  Option        "NvAGP" "3"      		********************************
  Option        "NoBandWidthTest" "1"
  Option        "CursorShadowYOffset" "4"
  Option        "NoLogo" "1"
  Option        "NoMTRR" "1"
  Screen       0
  Option       "Rotate" "off"
  VendorName   "NVidia"


Cheers, Curtis.
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