device drm with PCIe?
O. Hartmann
ohartman at mail.uni-mainz.de
Fri Dec 16 14:52:53 PST 2005
Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>On Friday 16 December 2005 01:44 pm, O. Hartmann wrote:
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>
>>Jung-uk Kim schrieb:
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>>>On Thursday 15 December 2005 07:36 am, O. Hartmann wrote:
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>>>>Normally 'device drm' is only useable in conjunction with 'device
>>>>agp'. A lot of amd64 based boxes now use PEG slots for their
>>>>graphics accelerators. Is it possible to utilize 'drm' with PCIe
>>>>devices?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Yes. It should work, at least in theory. ;-)
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>>>>Does device agp has any effect on PCIe graphics accelerators?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>No. You don't need it for PCI-Express controller.
>>>
>>>
>>Ok, but without AGP (device agp) in my kernel config file, I get a
>>lot of errors while linking the kernel of missing agp_xxxxx
>>routines (FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE/amd64). So, device drm alone seems to
>>be useless (although in conjunction with device pci).
>>
>>
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>Did you try 'make clean; make cleandepend; make depend; make'?
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>
I used always 'make kernel' from /usr/usr.
Doing it the old-stylish way no error occurs on FBSD6.0-STABLE/amd64
with device drm enabled, device agp disabled using your recommended
command sentence. This is a little bit confusing ... Though 'make
kernel' does all the stuff ...
>Jung-uk Kim
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>>>Jung-uk Kim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Oliver
>>>>
>>>>
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