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srkitch
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 Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject: getting nvidia drivers installed??? [Solved] |
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i got some good info and looked at the HowTo, but i have a problem. i have a PCI-e vid card and agpgart isn't a selectable option in my kernel config, it looks like this.....
no box to check. what is one to do then???
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Headrush
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| If you have a PCI-e card, you aren't using AGP. |
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srkitch
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Headrush wrote: | | If you have a PCI-e card, you aren't using AGP. |
i understand that, but then where do i look for how to set up nvidia drivers? the HowTo does not address this. i guess i could go and get the driver from nvidia, but will it work right w/o agp?? i haven't tried, but the guide is vague on this. do they just assume most people are using agp so thats how they write it?
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Monkeh
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: getting nvidia drivers installed??? |
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| srkitch wrote: | i got some good info and looked at the HowTo, but i have a problem. i have a PCI-e vid card and agpgart isn't a selectable option in my kernel config, it looks like this.....
no box to check. what is one to do then??? |
That means it's compiled in as a dependency for something else. |
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srkitch
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: getting nvidia drivers installed??? |
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| Monkeh wrote: | | srkitch wrote: | i got some good info and looked at the HowTo, but i have a problem. i have a PCI-e vid card and agpgart isn't a selectable option in my kernel config, it looks like this.....
no box to check. what is one to do then??? |
That means it's compiled in as a dependency for something else. |
i don't know what it could be compiled for as a dependancy...i have a very minimal install with no framebuffer support. i think it just not an option b/c i have no agp on the board. |
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drwook
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| well go grep your .config if you don't know if it's selected or not.... |
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zietbukuel
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AGP != PCIe  |
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Headrush
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| srkitch wrote: | | i understand that, but then where do i look for how to set up nvidia drivers? the HowTo does not address this. i guess i could go and get the driver from nvidia, but will it work right w/o agp?? |
No the ebuild should work fine.
You just don't enable NvAGP in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but everything else should work the same. |
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Monkeh
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: Re: getting nvidia drivers installed??? |
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| srkitch wrote: | | Monkeh wrote: | | srkitch wrote: | i got some good info and looked at the HowTo, but i have a problem. i have a PCI-e vid card and agpgart isn't a selectable option in my kernel config, it looks like this.....
no box to check. what is one to do then??? |
That means it's compiled in as a dependency for something else. |
i don't know what it could be compiled for as a dependancy...i have a very minimal install with no framebuffer support. i think it just not an option b/c i have no agp on the board. |
I don't have any AGP on my board. I can compile in AGPGART if I want to. What you see is it being compiled in because it is depended on. |
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srkitch
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| oh, i see. i'll try it out when i get back to the box tomorrow. thanks guys. |
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altais
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yesterday night i had the idea to check which agp driver runs faster, i always used the agpgart, so i tried to use the nvagp, but i couldn´t stop linux to load the agpgart module.
i tried everything, take everything out /etc/modules.d/alias and /etc/modules.d/nvidia and run modules-update, the agp=off kerneloption and manually remove them with rmmod. lsmod always lists the nvidia_agp being loaded. or is this just the same name for the kernel module from linux and the one from nvidia?
i get confused, please help 
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| altais wrote: | yesterday night i had the idea to check which agp driver runs faster, i always used the agpgart, so i tried to use the nvagp, but i couldn´t stop linux to load the agpgart module.
i tried everything, take everything out /etc/modules.d/alias and /etc/modules.d/nvidia and run modules-update, the agp=off kerneloption and manually remove them with rmmod. lsmod always lists the nvidia_agp being loaded. or is this just the same name for the kernel module from linux and the one from nvidia?
i get confused, please help
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Did you set the NvAGP option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use the nvidia builtin in AGP?
If it still loads the other option is to remove the kernel agp from the kernel. (aka build a new kernel)
FYI. The speed difference bewteen the two ago methods has been debated several times in these forums and generally I think the differences are usually fairly small, at least not enough to notice during game play. So if your 3D stuff gets decent frame rates now, I wouldn't worry about testing the other. |
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altais
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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thx for the quick respond, i tried the nvagp option in xorg.conf, but lsmod still shows me nvidia_agp kernel module loaded
the question is whether this is the linux kernel module or the nvidia one.
i think i´ll try again with xorg.conf option and then read my x logs, otherwise i will take out the agpgart of my kernel config
i have hangers in doom3, that´s why i want to try out the nvidia agp |
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srkitch
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| you guys were right, it was there. when i did grep it showed AGP=y in .config. sorry and thanks. |
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srkitch
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| got it set, everything is working well. thanks for the help guys. i am only getting about 1710 FPS though. is that good?? |
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drwook
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| Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| srkitch wrote: | | got it set, everything is working well. thanks for the help guys. i am only getting about 1710 FPS though. is that good?? |
Presume you mean on glxgears - in which case that's a very bad benchmark, as it's heavily CPU bound. Also don't know what res/colour depth you're running or what card you've got (if it's a 7300 I've heard they're not great performers)
That said, for comparison my 5900XT AGP card does around 6800 fps. (but in an athlon64 & like I say it is CPU bound) |
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