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From: Alistair J Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
To: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>
Subject: Re: Weird problem with nforce2
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:15:31 +0100
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On Friday 29 August 2003 14:54, Rahul Karnik wrote:
> Markus H?stbacka wrote:
> > My chipset is NForce2, and needs NVIDIA NForce/NForce2 so the agp
> > can work with full power. Thank you.
>
> This is not true; AGP works perfectly fine with the in-kernel drivers.
> You can set your video card to use the in-kernel AGP even if it is
> Nvidia, I think (use the NvAgp option in XF86Config).
>
> If not, maybe the patch has not been updated for the latest kernels, and
> you will have to wait for someone to do so. In that case, this list is
> not the place to ask.
>

The patch is fully up to date, I'm running 2.6.0-test4-mm1.

nForce2 AGPGART plus the binary NVIDIA drivers kills my box on startup. I just 
disabled AGPGART and used NVAGP provided with the drivers and I get working 
AGP 8x.

Anybody else with this?

Cheers,
Alistair.
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