NVidia driver not using AGP?

[Kenneth Culver]

Quoting Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD at keyslapper.org>:

> On 11/30/04 01:22 PM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed:
>> Quoting Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD at keyslapper.org>:
>>
>> > On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed:
>> >> Quoting Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD at keyslapper.org>:
>> >>
>> >> > <SNIP>
>> > I'll post the result tonight.
>> >
>> > Thanks for straightening me out there!
>> >
>> No problem. Sorry if I seemed rude.
>
> Not at all!  I'm sure I have better things to do than get overly
> sensitive when someone brings a firm hand to straighten me out -
> especially when I really *am* wrong and just can't seem to interpret
> the data in front of my nose.  It's not like you were being insulting,
> so no worries :)
>
> Anyway, as promised, I changed the xorg.conf setting in my card setup
> as follows (Sorry it's so late):
>
>         Option "NvAGP" "2"
>
> and restarted Xorg.  Now, I have this:
>
> # sysctl hw.nvidia
> hw.nvidia.agp.card.rates: 8x 4x
> hw.nvidia.agp.card.fw: supported
> hw.nvidia.agp.card.sba: supported
> hw.nvidia.agp.card.registers: 0x1f000e1b:0x1f004302
> hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled
> hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: freebsd (agp.ko)
> hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 8x
> hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled
> hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: enabled
> hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA FreeBSD x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-6113 
> Mon Aug  2 16:08:32 PDT 2004
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 3
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0
> hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1
> hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295
> hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
> hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0
> hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce FX 5200
> hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16
> hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 04.34.20.22.bf
> hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: AGP
>
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like I really AM using AGP now,
> and at the full 8x acceleration.
>
> You know, it does look like Firefox is rendering images a little
> faster now - ever so slightly.  Switching Fvwm pages seems to render
> windows a good bit faster.  Most noticeable when switching from an
> empty page (no windows) into one with Firefox running.
>
> Switching Fvwm desktops doesn't seem much faster than before - don't
> get me wrong, it beats the pixels off my old system, but not much
> faster than before turning agp on.  Of course, it's rendering a
> 1560x1024 wallpaper, so . . .
>
> There are still the EnableVia4x, EnableALiAGP, EnableAGPSBA, and
> EnableAGPFW settings that appear to be off (0).  Not sure what these
> are yet; I wonder if they're mentioned in the Linux doc.  I wonder if
> the nvidia-settings port will tweak these or if I have to have the NV
> AGPGART working to get them on - assuming I want them on . . .
>
> On top of that, I noticed that the agp.card.fw is "supported" but the
> status is "disabled".  I wonder what's up with that?
>
> It's probably not important, but I also noticed the FlatPanelMode
> setting is 0, even though both my monitors are flat panels - probably
> because they're both VGA plugs, and "FlatPanel" actually means Digital
> Video Interface (DVI).
>
> Looks like the agp.ko support does work for some NVIDIA boards, just
> not all of them.
>
> Well, it'll be the weekend before I can give the NVidia AGPGART driver
> a go because I'll have to rebuild the kernel without the agp device,
> and then only if the boss (the weekend boss) gives me time to play -
> honeydo list is getting long.  If I can get to it, I'll post those
> results too.
>
> Thanks again Kenneth, for setting me right with this.
>
> Lou

I wonder what the people who actually have this working are doing differently
from those of us who can't seem to get it to work.

Ken