<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 29, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Greg Grotsky wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 6/25/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Greg Grotsky</B> <<A href="mailto:spikeygg@gmail.com">spikeygg@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV><DIV>AMD 3200+ on 32bit Debian using 32bit NVIDIA 8762 @ 1920x1080 /w deint - 60% to 80% cpu usage (depending on program)</DIV> <DIV>AMD 3200+ on 64bit Debian using 64bit NVIDIA 8762 @ 1920x1080 /w deint - 90%+ cpu usage (not too much usage yet)</DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>I just wanted to follow this email up, because I just found out that I still had the default AGPGART loaded into the kernel. I just removed it and now the NVIDIA driver is using NvAGP (like it should be) and I now get my 65% cpu usage! YAY! The moral of the story is, if you have an NVIDIA card, DON'T USE KERNEL SUPPLIED AGPGART! <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Perhaps true in your case, but I thought it was usually a matter of what chipset on your motherboard was providing the AGP interface. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The nVidia README says that some chipsets are not supported by their driver, I believe they list the supported ones.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I guess the best solution is to try both AGP drivers to see which gives the best result.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also, in most cases you will have to re-compile your kernel in order to use NvAGP, not a problem but something to be aware of.</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>