Re: Loading drm

2003-07-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 03:30:09 +0200, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: >> The minus sign doesn't mean "not installed". It means "not loaded". >> Anyway, agp_try_unsupported isn't a silver bullet. If there's a working >> patch as Roberto described, then use that. > > Do I 'have' to have a 2.4.2x kernel to a

Re: Loading drm

2003-07-21 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 03:30:12 +0200, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: But, when I look in modconf, it shows a "-" sign after agpgart, indicating that it is not installed, but it is. What would I have to do to straighten this out? The minus sign doesn't mean "not installed". It me

Re: Loading agpgart (Was: Loading drm)

2003-07-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Karol Czachorowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > The nForce2 AGPGART is not directly supported in 2.4.xx. You have some > > options: > > > > I'm almost sure that there is support for nForce2 agpgart in current 2.4 > kernels (2.4.21 or later). Or maybe in ac (Alan Cox's) patches (I'm us

Re: Loading agpgart (Was: Loading drm)

2003-07-20 Thread Karol Czachorowski
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 03:53:59 +0200 (CEST) Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The nForce2 AGPGART is not directly supported in 2.4.xx. You have some > options: > I'm almost sure that there is support for nForce2 agpgart in current 2.4 kernels (2.4.21 or later). Or maybe in ac (Alan

Re: Loading drm

2003-07-20 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 03:30:12 +0200, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > But, when I look in modconf, it shows a "-" sign after agpgart, > indicating that it is not installed, but it is. What would I have to do > to straighten this out? The minus sign doesn't mean "not installed". It means "not loaded". An

Re: Loading agpgart (Was: Loading drm)

2003-07-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Jerry Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Thank you for the info. I think I'd like to go with a debianized 2.4.20 > kernel. > Is deselect a good way to install it? > Yes. Just select it in dselect. When the download finishes, untar the source tree and in /usr/src create a symli

Re: Loading agpgart (Was: Loading drm)

2003-07-19 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Jerry, The nForce2 AGPGART is not directly supported in 2.4.xx. You have some options: - download the driver from nVidia's website and apply the patch to a 2.4.20 kernel (it applies just fine to the Debianized kernel) - download a later 2.5.xx or the new 2.6.0-test1 kern

Re: Loading agpgart (Was: Loading drm)

2003-07-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Jerry Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > I do have this file: > /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o > > Is it saying it can't find an AGP device? > > > I have a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 motherboard, which has an nForce2 chip on it. > Could it be that the cu

Re: Loading agpgart (Was: Loading drm)

2003-07-19 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: I'm sorry, the Subject should have read Loading agpgart. Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: I was trying to install the agpgart module using modconf, into my kernel, when I got this message: Installing module agpgart. If the device isn't there, or isn't configured correctly, thi

Re: Loading drm

2003-07-19 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Antony Gelberg wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 04:29:29PM -0700, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: I was trying to install the agpgart module using modconf, into my kernel, when I got this message: Installing module agpgart. If the device isn't there, or isn't configured correctly, this could cause your

Re: Loading drm

2003-07-19 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 04:29:29PM -0700, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > I was trying to install the agpgart module using modconf, into my kernel, > when I got this message: > > Installing module agpgart. If the device isn't there, or isn't configured > correctly, this could cause your system to pau

Loading agpgart (Was: Loading drm)

2003-07-19 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
I'm sorry, the Subject should have read Loading agpgart. Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: I was trying to install the agpgart module using modconf, into my kernel, when I got this message: Installing module agpgart. If the device isn't there, or isn't configured correctly, this could cause your system

Loading drm

2003-07-19 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
I was trying to install the agpgart module using modconf, into my kernel, when I got this message: Installing module agpgart. If the device isn't there, or isn't configured correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a minute. /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agp