[NTLUG:Discuss] AGP2x & 2.2.x

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Sun Jun 18 23:47:39 CDT 2000


al wrote:
 
> MDK7.1
> 2.2.16 w/ U EIDE patch
> and a working 3D setup (Q3demo works anyway)
> My VooDoo3 AGP is detected as a PCI during boot and startx

Yes - but does that necessarily mean that OpenGL isn't using
AGP?   I confess I don't understand this stuff - but you plug
a card into an AGP slot and it works...isn't that enough?
 
> I recently tried the 2.4-test1 kernel and noticed many improvments
> in
> performance, though in my case not in stability...:(
> so it's back to 2.2
> 
> while running 2.4-t1 one of the things I saw was AGP
> 
> is this excluseively 2.4 territory?
> 
> or is there an AGP(2x) access in 2.2?

My nVidia card (which is AGP) is working OK under 2.2.15 (SuSE 6.4).

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