NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel

Alex Zbyslaw xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Sun Sep 25 14:06:51 PDT 2005


dick hoogendijk wrote:

>I have problems getting the nvidia driver to work.
>I get these error msgs starting X
>
>NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS
>kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended
>
>+ I recompiled my generic kernel and leave option AGP out.
>(nvidia's agp gart is used then)
>+ I use FreeBSD-5.4p7
>+ AGP card is "GeForce 6600 GT"
>+ CPU: Athlon64 3400+
>
>I looked into the README file and did some googling but could not find
>an answer. Where does this error msg come from?
>What can I do about it?
>
>I did a normal portinstall of the nvidia driver so it's compiled *not*
>to use freebsd's agp.ko
>
>Although Xorg seems to work I'd rather know what the problem is..
>
>  
>
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=52388

--Alex



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