From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk2RH-00008N-S8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 18:23:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l44ILgVN025215; Fri, 4 May 2007 18:21:42 GMT Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.189]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l44ILfB7025209 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 18:21:41 GMT Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w8so1078728mue for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:21:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=d6jcUNfo7ALa2rVVw7U6ZQ6P8aN8iyWnMLxzEndMPC1bZj9rLjtpDrWaao2Z8ne2Qz6EnZZYEor1N1/jKEWtU/lZGpL2oTs6QEB73eRIXufY7qRYwmCbbdu/LyWdH245sRc436oJxeQNr7280teeoMfPpEfhRNF3dNnnlmX1bxI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=onxw5mvNODoy6e8u8YyJR9iG8wO0VvNl9oEHJGk59eRs0usm39e+6R1mBufaJ2zUSU7k46iXUPp87L4sowy/LW9oX9FqHLnm32z65ZmpmSi6150eAuLJgupG/fB/QUXhUXCPZ1bL66xOhCAFtNCB5MZuF2sgP7Kwgj+TS+NoiyM= Received: by 10.82.187.16 with SMTP id k16mr7096635buf.1178302901355; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.124.20 with HTTP; Fri, 4 May 2007 11:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7a329d910705041121w6895fa09o6a22a472bc4dd998@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 11:21:41 -0700 From: "Wil Reichert" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AGPART In-Reply-To: <463B6F3A.9050000@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070504170035.8E51699466@mail.ilievnet.com> <463B6F3A.9050000@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 90a109ad-f629-47d0-80a0-829e3118abf3 X-Archives-Hash: 22ceb305fc9519b345a7115292195826 On 5/4/07, Jeffrey Gardner wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Hi, guys > > > > I have an NForce based motherboard with an integrated > > [ surprise! ] :) NVidia PCI-X videocard. So, I don't need the agpart > > driver for my kernel, right? The problem is that I can't switch it off: > > > > > >> Linux Kernel v2.6.20-gentoo-r7 Configuration > >> Device Drivers > >> Character devices > >> --- /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) > > > > > > The help says: > > > >> Selected by: IOMMU && PCI || FB_I810 && FB && EXPERIMENTAL && PCI && > >> X86_32 || FB_INTEL && FB && EXPERIMENTAL && PCI && X86 > > > > > > My questions: > > - Is it normal? > > - Should I disable it (how)? > > General setup > [*] Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) ---> > [*] Enable 16-bit UID system calls > > [*] Sysctl syscall support > > > [*] Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops > > [ ] Do an extra kallsyms > pass > > [*] Support for hot-pluggable devices > > [*] Enable support > for printk > > [*] BUG() support > > [*] Enable ELF > core dumps > > [*] Enable full-sized data structures for core > > [*] > Enable futex support > > [*] Enable eventpoll support > > > [*] Use full shmem filesystem > > [*] Enable VM event counters > for /proc/vmstat > > Processor type and features > [ ] IOMMU support > > Then you can disable agpgart Does it really matter either way? I've been curious about this myself. Wil -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list