nv problems on AMD64 6.1-RELEASE

Chris Radlinski radlinskic at acm.org
Wed Jan 3 11:29:06 PST 2007


I'm running the latest release BIOS release and there's no AGP rate
option.  Could this be because my board is PCI Express?

Thanks,
Chris

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 12:52, SirDice wrote:

> Chris Radlinski wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.  I'm not using the proprietary NVidia drivers.  
> > I'm using the open-source X.org nv driver.  Is there a way to adjust the 
> > agp rate on that driver?
> 
> Not that I know of, neither is there on the proprietary driver. I had to 
> lower the AGP rate in my BIOS. I know you're using the nv driver, I just 
> find it interesting I had the exact same symptoms even though I am using 
> the proprietary drivers. It also seems varied between kernel/OS updates. 
> Sometimes I can set it to it's max, at other times I need to lower it 
> while having the same version of the NVidia driver. This leads me to 
> believe it's not so much a driver issue but something in the kernel 
> itself (either generating the errors or not dealing with them properly).
> 
> YMMV but it's worth a shot, so is upgrading the BIOS to it's latest 
> version. Which I had to do to even be able to lower the AGP rate in the 
> BIOS.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Remko C.


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