Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:26:22 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Jan Dittmer <j.dittmer@portrix.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: agpgart, nforce2, radeon and agp fastwrite
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On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 05:51:42PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
 > just took me half a hour to figure out. On nforce2 you have to disable 
 > agp fastwrites, otherwise X locks hard on startup with the following 
 > (from serial console).
 > ...
 > 
 > Without AGP Fastwrites turned on, it all works wonderful. Just if 
 > anybody encounters the same problem.
 > Mainboard is nForce2 based, graphics is radeon 8500le (R200).

Could be that the nforce & radeon don't play well together.
Anyone using fast writes without problems with non-ATI cards & nforce ?
If it works there, it's trivial to blacklist ATI cards and make them
unable to enable fast writes in the gart driver.

		Dave

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