santner Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 This is my never ending saga to resolve: cat /proc/drivers/nvidia/agp/status Status: Disabled So I checked to see what modules are loaded, looking for a clue. It turns out that both agpgart and nvidia are loaded. When I try to remove them: rmmod nvidia ERROR: Module nvidia is in use rmmod agpgart ERROR: Module agpgart is dependent on via-agp ----or something like that So I am just wondering if this is normal for both modules to be loaded at the same time, and it seems that they are both in use since I can not remove them. Is this normal? Also, is there a tutorial or something on /etc/modules* and /etc/modprobe*? I have like 6 of these files, and if I was more educated on what they do and how they work I think that might help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 nvidia is the video card driver, agpgart is the AGP driver, having them both loaded is normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 why a new thread instead of continuing here? http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?sho...topic=14474&hl= merge? I've seen agpgart load even when told not to. It didn't use to do this. If you have told nvidia not to use it, it shouldn't, Look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or .9.log) and it and the /proc fs should tell you if it is using agpgart or nvidia's agp....or none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted May 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 In my XFree86.config file, I have: Options "NvAGP" "1" which as I understand from the readme.txt file: Option "NvAGP" "integer" Configure AGP support. Integer argument can be one of: 0 : disable agp 1 : use NVIDIA's internal AGP support, if possible 2 : use AGPGART, if possible 3 : use any agp support (try AGPGART, then NVIDIA's AGP) Please note that NVIDIA's internal AGP support cannot work if AGPGART is either statically compiled into your kernel or is built as a module, but loaded into your kernel (some distributions load AGPGART into the kernel at boot up). Default: 3 (the default was 1 until after 1.0-1251). So from the above paragraph I understand that I need to disable AGPGART from loading automatically at startup so that the nvidia internal AGP support will work. Is this how you see it? If so, where can I go to disable AGPGART at startup? I imagine somewhere in /etc/modules*? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 locking this thread, let's continue the discussion in the original which contains the same info as this one (and thereby merging them would be pointless): Original Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 I'm also moving it to harware - where the other thread (sensibley enough) is already living... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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