Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?)

Kenneth Culver culverk at sweetdreamsracing.biz
Tue Nov 30 08:53:45 PST 2004


Quoting "Hauan, David" <david.hauan at fairchild.af.mil>:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:kirk at strauser.com]
>> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:32 PM
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?)
>>
>>
>> On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote:
>>
>> > Given the fact that I haven't yet seen anyone with working AGP on their
>> > FreeBSD systems with the latest nvidia driver, I'm willing to bet 
>> that part
>> > of the driver is broken.
>>
>> How about this, then:
>>
>> Has *anyone* successfully used an NVidia card with the most recent 
>> x11/nvidia-driver port in AGP (as opposed to PCI) mode?
>> -- Kirk Strauser
>>
> Yes.  Just installed the latest from nvidia.
> after boot and login
>
> #sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status.status
> hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled
>
> However after fire off a X server..
>
> #sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status.status
> hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled
>
Are you using xorg or XFree86?

Ken


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