Enabling NVAGP and disabling GART_IOMMU?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Jun 16 03:36:19 UTC 2006


Chris Jones:
>> Not true. the kernel AGP can be disabled by simply booting with the kernel 
>> option "agp=off" (add it to the kernel options in /etc/grub.conf). Then 
>> agpgart will be disabled.

Axel Thimm:
> So what about the official documentation about this not being possible:
> 
>     Please note that NVIDIA's internal AGP support cannot work if AGPGART is
>     either statically compiled into your kernel or is built as a module and
>     loaded into your kernel. Please see Appendix F for details. Default: 3.

Perhaps what Chris has suggested results in a third permutation:

  Compiled into, or as a module, but NOT loaded.

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