Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264374AbTFLMGs (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:06:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264479AbTFLMGr (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:06:47 -0400 Received: from smtp02.web.de ([217.72.192.151]:41226 "EHLO smtp.web.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264374AbTFLMGq (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:06:46 -0400 Message-ID: <000f01c33013$c713eeb0$6602a8c0@Schleppi> From: "Gregor Essers" To: "I Am Falling I Am Fading" Cc: , References: Subject: Re: Via KT400 and AGP 8x Support Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:19:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2440 Lines: 70 Hi i will look into that with the bridges, i hope that Hercules is so that they give me the spec?s (Plan of the Card) with the Jupers/Bridges for AGP 2.0. The minus on Performace is not great, in my eyes. It?s very SAD that Ati and Nvidia will not give the Specs or an Sourcecode of the Drivers :/. Regards Gregor Essers ----- Original Message ----- From: "I Am Falling I Am Fading" To: "John Bradford" Cc: ; ; Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Via KT400 and AGP 8x Support > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, John Bradford wrote: > > > > The only other solution is to kick your card down into AGP 2.0 mode, which > > > most BIOSes do not allow you to do in software. Instead what you have to > > > do is cut/unsolder traces on your video card for the pins used for AGP 3.0 > > > detection. This is a near-permanent and horrible solution but it does get > > > everything working. :-/ > > > > Insulating tape on certain pins works on ISA cards, but whether it would be > > practical on the smaller pins of an AGP card, I'm not sure. > > Tried it already... The pins are too small to get adequate purchase for > the tape -- the friction just causes it to slide around in the slot and > gets goo around. > > Superglue might be a better solution.... > > ...but I think the solder method is better. > > On the Radeon 9700 Pro at least there are a couple jumpers on the > appropriate pins, bridged by 0-ohm surface mount resistors (i.e. simple > conductors). What you can do is just unsolder the bridges and it becomes > an AGP 2.0 card... If you have a very steady hand you can also resolder > them to get your AGP 3.0 back. > > Still this is not a fun solution as you can potentially cook your card > (make sure to use a 15 watt iron, nothing higher). > > ----- > James Sellman -- ISU CoE-CS/ISLUG Linux Lab Admin |"Lum, did you just see > ----------------------------------------------------| a hentai rabbit flying > skuld@inconnu.isu.edu | // A4000/604e/60 128M| through the air?" > skuld@anime.net | \X/ A500/20 3M | - Miyake Shinobu > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/