For the i440BX, it should be fully operational and work just exactly like
the linux counterpart. You shouldn't need the agpgart tarball, it sohuld
work (but only in XFree86 3.3.6). XFree86 4.x uses DRI exclusively. If
you want to use that, you should visit dri.sourceforge.net.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:26:03AM -0700, Farooq Mela wrote, and it was proclaimed:
> Hi,
>
> Right, I've already got that:
>
> agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem
> 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
>
> That still doesnt answer my question about the agpgart (AGP
> g-something address resolution table, or something similar - needed
> for high-performance memory transfers).
>
> -- Coleman Kane wrote:
> >
> > 4.3-RELEASE comes with an agp device. Simply add agp_load="YES" to your
> > /boot/loader.conf file, or device agp to your kernel config file. It
> > only supports certain AGP bridges though, look in /usr/src/sys/pci/agp*
> > for more info.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:48:00PM -0700, Farooq Mela wrote, and it was proclaimed:
> > > Hi hackers@,
> > >
> > > What is the status of the /dev/agpgart device? (I'm running 4.3-STABLE
> > > with a recent cvsup). Is it working, perhaps using a compatible
> > > interface with the linux device the of the same name (I can dream
> > > can't I ;-) ? I ask because I recently tried compiling Utah-GLX with
> > > AGP acceleration support, and it requires a /dev/agpgart device, but
> > > the testgart program errors out when it tries to ioctl the agpgart
> > > device.
> > >
> > > The Utah-GLX website all provides a tarball
> > > (http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/gart/agpgart-freebsd-20000619.tar.gz)
> > > which includes a FreeBSD agpgart driver (as a KLD), but it fails to
> > > compile. I believe it was for the FreeBSD 3.x series, and has tons of
> > > compile errors. The documentation for the driver also states the as
> > > part of the installation, a /dev/agpgart must be built, yet I already
> > > had a /dev/agpgart device. This leads me to believe this driver is a
> > > bit antiquated.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > --
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