At 21:41 -0700 13/9/00, stephen boulet wrote: >Using the 7.2 beta as a base, I'm trying to get the NVidia_kernel rpm to >work for my Geforce2 card. > >It builds fine, but this is the message I get when trying to install it: ><< >[root@mozart /root]# rpm -i >/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.i686.rpm >agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset, you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1. >/lib/modules/2.2.17-3mdk/misc/agpgart.o: init_module: Device or resource busy >/lib/modules/2.2.17-3mdk/misc/agpgart.o: insmod >/lib/modules/2.2.17-3mdk/misc/agpgart.o failed >/lib/modules/2.2.17-3mdk/misc/agpgart.o: insmod NVdriver failed Don't trust on binary rpms, they are so dependent on kernel builds and options... I downloaded the src.rpm, intalled it, untarred the /usr/src/RPMS/SOURCES/NVIDIA_kernel....tgz and make'ed it. I think its safer. By now the use of agpgart or nVidia's native AGP can't be selected at runtime, so if the module was compiled to use agpgart and your kernel doesn't, crash. And if you use agpgart and nvdriver tries to use its own, the same. Resume: build from sources. BTW, you could try the following (as the error message says...): - rmmod agpgart - modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 - modprobe NVdriver If this works, add to your /etc/modules.conf: option agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 All of this supposes that the "unsupported" support was selected when compiling the kernel, I don't remenber if there is a checkbox when you make xconfig in the kernel sources under "agpgart support", to add "via chipset support". And as I remenber, agpgart is not included in standard 2.2.17 kernel. But you seem to have the agpgart.o module. I suppose it's a Mandrake patch (there was also an agpgart backport from 2.4 available at nvidias IRC channel). You also could try the 2.2.18-pre6 update, that includes USB support, AGP support and other things back-ported from 2.4-testX. I am now running 2.2.18-pre6 with NVdriver and without kernel agp, on a dual PII@400. Works fine. No hangs. I think its a bit messy, sorry. Ask anything that was not clear.... -- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Grupo de Informatica Grafica Avanzada http://giga.cps.unizar.es Tlf: 34-976-762354,1916 - Fax: 34-976-761914 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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