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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fqhxz-00082v-TY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:52:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5F2oUcY027208; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:50:30 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5F2hgAO025352 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:43:42 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id E490D200333 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:43:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBFD20032B for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:43:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 14242850 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:43:26 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:43:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <4490C4C9.9020409@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <4490C4C9.9020409@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606150443.25611.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 71bf314f-c63b-4494-bbc8-59c4013fa023 X-Archives-Hash: ffecf8f4ce8239233433dbcf23c35abe On Thursday 15 June 2006 04:24, Sean wrote: > Trying to setup my system to support my nvidia vid card. > > Per instructions I am supposed to enable agpgart in the kernel, which is > under device drivers---> > character devices---> > --- /dev/agpgart (agp support) > > As you can see above my system does not allow anything to be done for > /dev/agpgart, it just has three lines before it. > How do I enable this in the kernel towards getting my nvidia card working? > > Please note: if it makes a difference I am running amd64. > you don't set anything else on amd64. Just agp support. That is enough. Rebuild, configure X properly, emerge nvidia-kernel, eselect opengl set nvidia, start X. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list