Bug 158329 - There is no support for AGP VIA PT880 ULTRA on amd64 architecture
Summary: There is no support for AGP VIA PT880 ULTRA on amd64 architecture
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 8
Hardware: 64bit SuSE Linux 10.1
: P5 - None : Major (vote)
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Assignee: Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Reported: 2006-03-15 17:30 UTC by Rafal Zawadzki
Modified: 2006-04-12 17:15 UTC (History)
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Description Rafal Zawadzki 2006-03-15 17:30:04 UTC 
There is no support for AGP VIA PT880 ULTRA on amd64 architecture (EM64T). Module via-agp (which contains support for PT 880 ULTRA) has x86_32 dependency. So, there is no 3d acceleration under 64bit Open Suse using chipset with pt880 ultra.
Comment 1 Rafal Zawadzki 2006-03-15 17:46:01 UTC 
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0308
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1308
0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2308
0000:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3208
0000:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4308

this is lspci...
Comment 2 Olaf Kirch 2006-03-17 15:02:53 UTC 
Greg, can you look into this please? Is this just a matter of removing
the dependency on X86_32, or is there a real 64bit cleanliness issue with
the via-agp.c?
Comment 3 Rafal Zawadzki 2006-03-17 17:30:31 UTC 
It 64 bit issue. I've already tried to remove x86_32 dependency - for the first look everything looks ok - agpgart  detect my chipset, fglrx / radeon driver too. But first try of using it (glxinfo, glxgears, any opengl stuff) hangs the computer.
Comment 4 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2006-03-17 22:05:27 UTC 
Yeah, I don't think there's really anything we can do about it here, sorry.

That device is just unsuported right now for amd64.  Try asking the AGP maintainer
on the linux-kernel mailing list about it if you want to try to get it to work
in the future.
Comment 5 Rafal Zawadzki 2006-03-19 09:17:24 UTC 
I tried writing to agp maintainer Dave Jones, without effect - I was ignored. IMVHO big companies (like Novell) got much more persuadion power than normal mortal :(
Comment 6 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2006-04-12 17:15:15 UTC 
Sorry, but no, we do not have more influence than "normal" people do.

There's not much we can do here, sorry.