Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:07:00 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Via KT400 agpgart issues
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:59:03AM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:

 > I thought the KT400 chipset (at least) had been backported to 2.4.21 ?

Only for AGP2.x mode.

 > I'm not experiancing any technical problems. The nvidia /proc interfaces are 
 > reporting that I'm running at agp 8x

if its using its own agpgart routines, maybe. If it isn't, it's broken,
or lying.

 > , and I have full hardware acceleration 
 > enough to play games like Unreal Tournament 2003 quite fast (~50fps), its 
 > just that agpgart cant find my aperature size...

which happens when agpgart tries to read the AGP2.x size, when the
chipset is in 3.x mode.

 > I just tried my vendors (mandrake) 2.4.22 kernel and I get exactly the same 
 > output.

No vendor that I know of has backported the AGP3 support it its
entirity. The closest to a backport so far is the trainwreck that
is the ATI FireGL drivers.

		Dave

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 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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