Enabling NVAGP and disabling GART_IOMMU?
Chris Jones
jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Thu Jun 15 21:56:30 UTC 2006
> > the "agp=off" seems to be a little known kernel option, but works just
> > fine.
>
> "works"
>
> Unless you happen to use the IOMMU, in which case the nvidia module will
> happily stomp over random bits of data in the AGP aperture destined for
> your disk. (The IOMMU shares the AGP aperture, but only the in-kernel
> drivers know how to share it).
>
> Dave
OK, maybe I should rephrase as "works for me". I guess I must not be using
IOMMU (I've never heard of it).
Chris
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