Re: agpgart module

[Daniel Wagner <e9925791@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

Anthony Fox <ant@lonelyroad.org> writes:

> Hello,

hi,

> 
> I recently compiled a 2.4.5 kernel where agpgart was compiled as a
> module.  I have verified that the object file exists under
> /lib/modules/2.4.5.  I then recompiled my nvidia driver for my new
> kernel.  Everything works fine, and X starts up just fine.  However,
> I noticed that agpgart is not listed as a loaded module.  NVdriver
> is listed.  Also, NVdriver no longer depends on agpgart.  Does
> anyone know what happened?  The version of the nvidia driver is
> 1.0-1251.

nvidia (recently) changed there module so that it comes with it's own
agp-driver (see /proc/nv/card*). if you load the kernel agpgart module
NVdriver will use this one instead it's own.

cya,
daniel

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