[mythtv-users] Switched from ATI to Nvidia. AGPGART problem

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 01:01, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > 8xxx versions of the Nvidia driver, and I am thinking that by not
> > "uninstalling" the old ATI drivers, that I may have caused the YUM
> > install to fail to copy over the NVAGP files correctly. Is this a
> > possibility? Is there an easy way to get the ATI junk uninstalled if I
> > used the Binary download from ati.com? Should I try using the Nvidia
> > binary .run file and see if that fixes it?
>
> I have a feeling that you may need to recompile your kernel for the
> "1" option to work. I remember recompiling to do just this and then
> foudn myself in kernel module hell so I gave up!
>
> Happy to be corrected on this, though, cos as I say it's only a faint
> recollection.

Nope, that sounds correct. If the "1" isn't being respected, its likely 
because AGPGART is built into the kernel (rather than as a module), and thus 
you can't replace it w/NvAGP. Red Hat/Fedora builds AGPGART into their 
kernels. I've not found any compelling reason to use NvAGP over AGPGART 
though.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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