Just thought I'd let everyone know that the problem I had is now resolved.   The solution was simple: install SUSE 9.2.  Nothing I did under SUSE 9.1 worked, but the agpgart in 9.2 works fine and now I have 8x configured. mike.

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 19:47, Mike wrote:

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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?