On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:56:40 -0400 (EDT), Vladimir Dergachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think I've seen this one - check your BIOS settings - maybe you need to > >> enable something AGP related there. > > > > As I recall, since the X server doesn't have official 8x agp support > > yet for radeons, you have to force the bridge into 4x mode in the bios > > so it comes up in 4x mode. > > How very interesting. Alex - could you tell me what is involved in > providing AGP 8x mode ? I thought the speed was invisible to software.
This patch: http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/DRI/radeon-agp8x.diff although I hear the speed difference between 4x and 8x is minimal...at least on r200 hardware. r300 may be different. I don't have an 8x motherboard to test. If someone could test the patch we should probably apply it at some point. Alex > > thank you ! > > Vladimir Dergachev > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
