On Friday 25 June 2004 04:19 pm, Yasunari Tosa wrote:
Hi,
I did Yast to update the NVidia driver and the kernel (2.6.5-7.75-smp) after SUSE9.1 installation. Is this normal to get the following message in /var/log/messages?
I believe that the driver tries to use AGPGART as default since 1.0-1251. Seeing that it tried to use NVAGP instead, I'd be willing to bet you have an old option in your XF86Config file to the effect of Option 'NvAGP' '1' which was maybe a past fix for an unstable AGPGART. If you remove that option line from XF86Config, it won't try to use it anymore. If you have AGPGART statically linked in you kernel, it is impossible to use NvAGP anyway. The important thing is to check your /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status file to see that AGP was enabled and what it is using for driver and what the X rate is. Pertinent section of README is included below (you can get to readme from .run file by using the --extract-only param when you run it) Option "NvAGP" "integer" Configure AGP support. Integer argument can be one of: 0 : disable agp 1 : use NVIDIA's internal AGP support, if possible 2 : use AGPGART, if possible 3 : use any agp support (try AGPGART, then NVIDIA's AGP) Please note that NVIDIA's internal AGP support cannot work if AGPGART is either statically compiled into your kernel or is built as a module, but loaded into your kernel (some distributions load AGPGART into the kernel at boot up). Default: 3 (the default was 1 until after 1.0-1251). B-)
Jun 25 18:05:47 minerva kernel: 1: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table Jun 25 18:05:47 minerva kernel: 1: NVRM: not using NVAGP, kernel was compiled with GART_IOMMU support!!
Thank you.
Tosa
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