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28.Dd October 5, 2001
29.Dt AGP 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm agp
33.Nd "generic interface to the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "device agp"
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39driver provides uniform, abstract methods for controlling
40the following devices:
41.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
42.It
43Ali M1541 host-to-AGP bridge
44.It
45AMD 751, 761, 762 host-to-AGP bridge
46.It
47Intel 440 LX, 440 BX, 440 GX, i815, and i820 host-to-AGP bridge
48.It
49Intel i830, i840, i845, i850, and i855 host-to-AGP bridge
50.It
51Intel i860, i865, and i875 host-to-AGP bridge
52.It
53Intel i810, i810-DC100, i810E, i815, i830, and i845 SVGA controllers
54.It
55NVIDIA nForce, and nForce2 host-to-AGP bridge
56.It
57SiS 5591, and 648 host-to-AGP bridge
58.It
59Via Apollo KT133A, MVP4, VP3, MVP3, Pro 133A, and Pro host-to-AGP bridge
60.El
61.Pp
62The most common application of
63.Nm
64is for running
65.Xr XFree86 1
66on the Intel i81x controllers.
67.Sh FILES
68.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/agpgart" -compact
69.It Pa /dev/agpgart
70AGP device node.
71.El
72.Sh SEE ALSO
73.Xr XFree86 1
74.Sh HISTORY
75The
76.Nm
77driver first appeared in
78.Fx 4.1 .
79