Re: agpgart, nforce2, radeon and agp fastwrite

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 05:51:42PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
 > just took me half a hour to figure out. On nforce2 you have to disable 
 > agp fastwrites, otherwise X locks hard on startup with the following 
 > (from serial console).
 > ...
 > 
 > Without AGP Fastwrites turned on, it all works wonderful. Just if 
 > anybody encounters the same problem.
 > Mainboard is nForce2 based, graphics is radeon 8500le (R200).

Could be that the nforce & radeon don't play well together.
Anyone using fast writes without problems with non-ATI cards & nforce ?
If it works there, it's trivial to blacklist ATI cards and make them
unable to enable fast writes in the gart driver.

		Dave