Enabling NVAGP and disabling GART_IOMMU?

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Thu Jun 15 21:45:22 UTC 2006


> So what about the official documentation about this not being possible:
>
>     Please note that NVIDIA's internal AGP support cannot work if AGPGART
> is either statically compiled into your kernel or is built as a module and
> loaded into your kernel. Please see Appendix F for details. Default: 3.

Its wrong :)

jonesc at localhost ~ > uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 #1 Tue Jun 6 00:52:14 EDT 2006 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

jonesc at localhost ~ > cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status:          Enabled
Driver:          NVIDIA
AGP Rate:        4x
Fast Writes:     Disabled
SBA:             Disabled

the "agp=off" seems to be a little known kernel option, but works just fine.

Chris




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