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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd October 5, 2001
28.Dt AGP 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm agp
32.Nd "generic interface to the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "device agp"
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Nm
38driver provides uniform, abstract methods for controlling
39the following devices:
40.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
41.It
42Ali M1541 host-to-AGP bridge
43.It
44.\" 761 not in -stable
45AMD 751 and 761 host-to-AGP bridges
46.It
47Intel i810, i810-DC100, i810E, and i815 SVGA controllers
48.It
49Intel 82443GX host-to-AGP bridge
50.It
51SiS 5591 host-to-AGP bridge
52.El
53.Pp
54The most common application of
55.Nm
56is for running
57.Xr XFree86 1
58on the Intel i81x controllers.
59.Sh FILES
60.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/agpgart" -compact
61.It Pa /dev/agpgart
62AGP device node.
63.El
64.Sh SEE ALSO
65.Xr XFree86 1
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Nm
69driver first appeared in
70.Fx 4.1 .
71