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 1Fqoo3-0003ej-P7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:10:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5FA87jQ006337; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:08:07 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5F9wxFv019323 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:58:59 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C5B7200903 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:58:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821ED2008E7 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:58:59 +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 14248702 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:58:59 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and kernel support Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:58:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <4490C4C9.9020409@verizon.net> <200606150443.25611.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <4490CC31.6050909@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <4490CC31.6050909@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: <200606151158.59033.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: c3a28afd-350e-40b3-a4c3-b89bb8f7299b X-Archives-Hash: 7c039eae0c95a86792d8926e34194bfe On Thursday 15 June 2006 04:55, Sean wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > 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. > > Is this "Just agp support" something else other then what the handbook > instructions state about /dev/agpgart (agp support)? > As mentioned above that option is not available to me. > link? and: if you have enabled iommu support, agpsupport is built in the kernel. Because both are the same for AMD64. There is nio good reason to build agpsupport as modul on amd64, so it is ok to build it in. Just make a kernel, install the kernel and install nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list