From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Sep 6 11:17:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from sm3.texas.rr.com (sm3.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4404237B423; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:17:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bleep.craftncomp.com (cs2777-164.houston.rr.com [24.27.77.164]) by sm3.texas.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24422; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:17:05 -0500 Received: from bloop.craftncomp.com (bloop.craftncomp.com [202.12.111.1]) by bleep.craftncomp.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e86IH3V01515; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:17:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from shocking@houston.rr.com) Received: from bloop.craftncomp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bloop.craftncomp.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e86IH2G02094; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:17:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from shocking@bloop.craftncomp.com) Message-Id: <200009061817.e86IH2G02094@bloop.craftncomp.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Stephen Hocking , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange problems with AGP driver & sound. In-Reply-To: Message from Alfred Perlstein of "Wed, 06 Sep 2000 11:01:43 PDT." <20000906110143.G18862@fw.wintelcom.net> Reply-To: shocking@houston.rr.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 13:17:02 -0500 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Sorry to answer a question with a question, but what does the AGP > driver do? There's no manpage and my AGP mga400 'works' but without > acceleration without it loaded. Could not having AGP loaded be > why i'm having problems with acceleration? > Allows access to system memory by peripherals I think. And yes, it is needed for acceleration. Try compiling it in with a "device agp" in your config file - as I mentioned, the module doesn't seem to probe correctly. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message