Hallo Dieter > > > It's just a guess on the agp gart; the IDE and sound both are clones of > > > the AMD chip, so why not the gart?. The big whiz-bang feature of the > > > nFORCE chipset is the crossbar memory controller that supposedly doubles > > > the bandwidth of DDR (double double data rate). Why would they bother > > > creating the rest from scratch? Nevertheless, being a graphics chip > > > company, nVidia might very well decide to create their own GART. > > > > Because Sound & IDE are normally South Bridge stuff, so if they are in an > > AMD chipset board, they would be in the SB, and the Memory controller, AGP, > > would be in the NB. > > > > Unless nVidia / AMD tells you that it is the same, don't hold your breath. > > Alan Cox and someone on LKM had something going. > Watchout for -ac kernel changelogs and nFORCE there. > > Have you thried with "agp_try_unsupported=1"? > > modules.conf: > > [-] > alias char-major-10-175 agpgart > alias char-major-10-240 agpgarti810 > [-] > # agpgart is i386 only right now > pre-install mga /sbin/modprobe "-k" "agpgart" > pre-install r128 /sbin/modprobe "-k" "agpgart" > pre-install radeon /sbin/modprobe "-k" "agpgart" > options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 > [-]
Dankie Dieter But I dont have an nForce, I have and Irongate (756/ 758). I was replying to Al Tobey. cheers Liam ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
