nforce 2 drivers aren't working

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 16 15:00:13 PDT 2003


On 13-Sep-2003 Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, jason wrote:
>> I have done both, one at the time.  I have a 5.1 system and there is no
>> /dev/agpgart.  So I checked man mknod and found the majors file.  If you
>> already know how I should use mknod(block or char. device and major and
>> minor numbers), please let me know.  If not thats alright, I should be
>> able to find the right combonation later.
> 
> So if /dev/agpgart doesn't exist, then AGP isn't loaded or attaching to
> your device.
> 
> Send me the output of a verbose boot.

You can't kldload agp after boot because hostb(4) will have already
claimed the host-PCI bridge driver.  You need to load agp.ko from the
loader or compile it into the kernel.

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