Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 01:26:03 -0700 From: Farooq Mela <fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of agpgart device Message-ID: <3B57EB1B.632B6EF0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> References: <3B5771B0.D5575CAC@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> <20010720142738.A456@evil.apt>
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Hi, Right, I've already got that: agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 That still doesnt answer my question about the agpgart (AGP g-something address resolution table, or something similar - needed for high-performance memory transfers). -- Coleman Kane wrote: > > 4.3-RELEASE comes with an agp device. Simply add agp_load="YES" to your > /boot/loader.conf file, or device agp to your kernel config file. It > only supports certain AGP bridges though, look in /usr/src/sys/pci/agp* > for more info. > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:48:00PM -0700, Farooq Mela wrote, and it was proclaimed: > > Hi hackers@, > > > > What is the status of the /dev/agpgart device? (I'm running 4.3-STABLE > > with a recent cvsup). Is it working, perhaps using a compatible > > interface with the linux device the of the same name (I can dream > > can't I ;-) ? I ask because I recently tried compiling Utah-GLX with > > AGP acceleration support, and it requires a /dev/agpgart device, but > > the testgart program errors out when it tries to ioctl the agpgart > > device. > > > > The Utah-GLX website all provides a tarball > > (http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/gart/agpgart-freebsd-20000619.tar.gz) > > which includes a FreeBSD agpgart driver (as a KLD), but it fails to > > compile. I believe it was for the FreeBSD 3.x series, and has tons of > > compile errors. The documentation for the driver also states the as > > part of the installation, a /dev/agpgart must be built, yet I already > > had a /dev/agpgart device. This leads me to believe this driver is a > > bit antiquated. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > -- > > farooq <fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature farooq <fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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