NVidia driver not using AGP?

[Kenneth Culver]

Quoting Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD at keyslapper.org>:

> On 12/01/04 10:44 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed:
>> Quoting Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD at keyslapper.org>:
>> <SNIP> 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.
>
> I wish I knew.  I can't imagine it's hardware related beyond the NVidia
> card itself.
>
> One thing I didn't mention is my loader.conf settings:
> linux_load="YES"
> nvidia_load="YES"
>
> That's it.
>
> I don't think I really went to herculean lengths to get it right, I just
> did what I assumed needed to be done based on a quick scan of the
> readily available docs, aside from initially getting that AGP setting
> wrong in the Xorg config of course.
>
> When I initially built the drivers with AGP enabled, I was having
> problems with the display.  One screen would look like it was having a
> psychotic break, while the other stayed blank.  That may have been a
> conflict between the two AGP drivers though.
>
> Now that I'm a little more enlightened about it - being optomistic of
> course - I think it would be ok to rebuild the drivers with the AGPGART
> enabled, so long as I have the xorg config right.  The pain in the neck
> comes with rebuilding the kernel without the FreeBSD agp.ko.
>
> I can't just put a line in loader.conf to tell the kernel to leave agp
> off, can I?  Something like 'agp_load="NO"'?  It does have to be a
> rebuild kernel doesn't it?
>
Well I just updated to the latest stable today, and set everything to use the
nvidia agp driver, and it decided to start working. I'm just going to throw my
hands up and be glad it's working now.

Ken