device drm with PCIe?

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 16 11:23:30 PST 2005


On Friday 16 December 2005 01:44 pm, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Jung-uk Kim schrieb:
> > On Thursday 15 December 2005 07:36 am, O. Hartmann wrote:
> >>Normally 'device drm' is only useable in conjunction with 'device
> >>agp'. A lot of amd64 based boxes now use PEG slots for their
> >>graphics accelerators. Is it possible to utilize 'drm' with PCIe
> >>devices?
> >
> > Yes.  It should work, at least in theory. ;-)
> >
> >>Does device agp has any effect on PCIe graphics accelerators?
> >
> > No.  You don't need it for PCI-Express controller.
>
> Ok, but without AGP (device agp) in my kernel config file, I get a
> lot of errors while linking the kernel of missing agp_xxxxx
> routines (FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE/amd64). So, device drm alone seems to
> be useless (although in conjunction with device pci).

Did you try 'make clean; make cleandepend; make depend; make'?

Jung-uk Kim

> > Jung-uk Kim
> >
> >>Thanks,
> >>Oliver


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