2002-12-04 02:50:30

by Nathaniel Russell

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Subject: Help with Via AGP Card

I have a Via Agp card that reports that it cant be found it i just type in
/sbin/modprobe agpgart or /sbin/insmod agpgart
but if i do a /sbin/modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupport=1 or /sbin/insmod
agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 it shows up and works.
Some help here plz i would like to just have to type in /sbin/modprobe
agpgart but if i cant that would be ok them me.

Thank you Nathaniel
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2002-12-04 13:01:26

by Dave Jones

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Subject: Re: Help with Via AGP Card

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:57:56PM -0500, Nathaniel Russell wrote:
> I have a Via Agp card that reports that it cant be found it i just type in
> /sbin/modprobe agpgart or /sbin/insmod agpgart
> but if i do a /sbin/modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupport=1 or /sbin/insmod
> agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 it shows up and works.
> Some help here plz i would like to just have to type in /sbin/modprobe
> agpgart but if i cant that would be ok them me.

Simple addition to the "recognised GARTs" table in
drivers/char/agpgart_be.c should do the trick.

Dave

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2002-12-05 06:41:21

by Nathaniel Russell

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Subject: Re: Help with Via AGP Card

Do you have a patch i can try out or what do i type into the agpgart_be.c
file to make my AGP card work???
PLZ Help me.
Nathaniel

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:57:56PM -0500, Nathaniel Russell wrote:
> > I have a Via Agp card that reports that it cant be found it i just type in
> > /sbin/modprobe agpgart or /sbin/insmod agpgart
> > but if i do a /sbin/modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupport=1 or /sbin/insmod
> > agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 it shows up and works.
> > Some help here plz i would like to just have to type in /sbin/modprobe
> > agpgart but if i cant that would be ok them me.
>
> Simple addition to the "recognised GARTs" table in
> drivers/char/agpgart_be.c should do the trick.
>
> Dave
>
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> | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> | SuSE Labs
>