Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265374AbTFMMjp (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:39:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265375AbTFMMjp (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:39:45 -0400 Received: from 34.mufa.noln.chcgil24.dsl.att.net ([12.100.181.34]:18168 "EHLO tabby.cats.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265374AbTFMMjo (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:39:44 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jesse Pollard To: I Am Falling I Am Fading , Dave Jones Subject: Re: Via KT400 and AGP 8x Support Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 07:52:57 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: John Bradford , , References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <03061307525700.13701@tabby> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1621 Lines: 36 On Thursday 12 June 2003 07:36, I Am Falling I Am Fading wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Dave Jones wrote: > > > 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. > > > > So rather than experiment with backporting the 2.5 code to 2.4, > > you'd rather risk damaging your hardware ? > > > > I think this way is madness. > > Unfortunately even a perfect backport seems to be only a partial solution > -- the ATI binary only drivers don't seem to know how to talk to the 2.5 > AGP 3.0 stuff anyway (well, at least they didn't work at all when I tried > them under the 2.5 kernel :-/), and as they are lame binary-only drivers > there is no way to fix that. > > There are also no other drivers for the R300-series Radeon GPUs. :-( > > This absolutely sucks, but turning the card into an AGP 2.0 card seems to > be the only surefire way to get it to work properly under Linux. :-( I'm not sure this will help the hardware situation, but you could try a bus extender (it will make the board stick out of the slot a couple of inches). It should allow you the option of either cutting the extender wire traces or pull jumpers to see if things do work. - 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/