Wish AGP were a kernel module; blocks use of Nvidia NvAGP support
Anthony Joseph Messina
amessina at messinet.com
Mon Apr 17 14:49:36 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 09:04 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I have a Dell Latitude D800 laptop with an Nvidia GO5200FX card. It
> did work to suspend to memory in Fedora Core 3, but ever since the FC4
> and 5 were released, the video does not wake up after a suspend.
> (black screen, but I can log in and re-start the computer).
>
> One of the pieces of advice from the NVidia people is to remove the
> kernel AGP and use the NVidia AGP instead. The xorg.conf option is
>
> Option "NvAGP" "1"
>
> That used to work.
>
> Now it fails, the dmesg error says:
>
>
> Apr 10 13:21:42 pols113 kernel: NVRM: not using NVAGP, an AGPGART
> backend is loaded!
>
> After chasing my tail around, I found out this happens because the
> Kernel has AGP support compiled with "y" rather than "m" and there is
> nothing the X server can do to make it stop.
>
> I was re-building kernels a lot back in 1998 and 1999, but i'm too old
> for that and don't want to unless i really have to. So, what to do?
>
> --
> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science
> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
> University of Kansas
>
you can add "agp=off" to your grub boot line to disable kernel agp.
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