Wish AGP were a kernel module; blocks use of Nvidia NvAGP support

[Paul Johnson]

I have a Dell Latitude D800 laptop with an Nvidia GO5200FX card.  It
did work to suspend to memory in Fedora Core 3, but ever since the FC4
and 5 were released, the video does not wake up after a suspend.
(black screen, but I can log in and re-start the computer).

One of the pieces of advice from the NVidia people is to remove the
kernel AGP and use the NVidia AGP instead.  The xorg.conf option is

 Option "NvAGP" "1"

That used to work.

Now it fails, the dmesg error says:


Apr 10 13:21:42 pols113 kernel: NVRM: not using NVAGP, an AGPGART
backend is loaded!

After chasing my tail around, I found out this happens because the
Kernel has AGP support compiled with "y"  rather than "m" and there is
nothing the X server can do to make it stop.

I was re-building kernels a lot back in 1998 and 1999, but i'm too old
for that and don't want to unless i really have to.  So, what to do?

--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas