2003-02-20 16:51:52

by Casey Lancour

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Subject: 8x AGP under linux?

Does anyone know the status to 8x agp support under linux?
I am using the Granite bay 7205 chipset and I cant get my geforce4 card
to use agpgart or nvidia's agp support, it seems to be defaulting to pci
mode (not even using 4x agp).
I do a:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status

which is my indication that i am not using agp bus to its fullest.


-=Casey


2003-02-20 17:13:48

by Dave Jones

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Subject: Re: 8x AGP under linux?

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:00:56AM -0600, Casey Lancour wrote:
> Does anyone know the status to 8x agp support under linux?
> I am using the Granite bay 7205 chipset and I cant get my geforce4 card
> to use agpgart or nvidia's agp support, it seems to be defaulting to pci
> mode (not even using 4x agp).
> I do a:

For 2.4, there is a patch for that chipset (that didnt get merged
to mainline). 2.5 has it supported out-of-the-box, but likely
breaks with your binary nvidia driver.

Dave

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2003-02-20 17:39:05

by Tolentino, Matthew E

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Subject: RE: 8x AGP under linux?

Casey, I can send you the 2.4 patch for the E7205/E7505 chipsets that I posted a while back that also incorporates AGP 3.0 support if you are interested. However as Dave mentioned, I did have quite a bit of trouble with the Nvidia 8x binary only driver, so ymmv....

matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Jones [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:36 AM
> To: Casey Lancour
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: 8x AGP under linux?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:00:56AM -0600, Casey Lancour wrote:
> > Does anyone know the status to 8x agp support under linux?
> > I am using the Granite bay 7205 chipset and I cant get my
> geforce4 card
> > to use agpgart or nvidia's agp support, it seems to be
> defaulting to pci
> > mode (not even using 4x agp).
> > I do a:
>
> For 2.4, there is a patch for that chipset (that didnt get merged
> to mainline). 2.5 has it supported out-of-the-box, but likely
> breaks with your binary nvidia driver.
>
> Dave
>
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