[mythtv-users] Nvidia just released 8756.

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 14, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> Brian Wood wrote:
>> On Apr 14, 2006, at 7:37 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yeah, if you have agpgart loaded and use NVAGP=1, then you're
>>> basically
>>> disabling AGP
>>> functionality, so you'll lose bandwidth. NVAGP=1 is only good for  
>>> 6200
>>> series cards with
>>> the pre 8756 driver, AFAIK.
>>>
>>
>> Also be aware that if you are using IOMMU that seems to require
>> AGPGART, so in order to use the NVIDIA AGP driver you need to remove
>> IOMMU from your kernel as well.
>>
>> NVAGP=1 does seem to work with a 6200 and 8756 however, at least
>> according to:
>>
>
> Yeah, but so does agpgart (default NVAGP setting), so why bother?
>

Don't know, but since somebody was giving instructions to disable  
agpgart in the kernel, I thought I might save someone the aggravation  
of discovering the iommu dependency the hard way, as I did.

I just tried it in an attempt to discover the cause of my X lockups.  
Didn't help.