Onur,
Your comments make me feel good about going forward with this project. It
seems the reviews I have read about the video don't rate it to highly for
gaming. If this machine was going to be a work horse only I would just go
with 2d on-board video. But since I enjoy playing opengl games and I didn't
see loki supporting this video card, I began to shy away from it. Have you
run opengl with it and got decent performance? Since I am going to put 256mb
of ram on this board I figured I would open set the agp apeture high in the
bios.
As for the nvidia card I am getting playable performance from it, but less
than windows. The nvidia drivers went in for me with no problems, I didn't
use the rpms I went with the tar files. Edited XF86Config-4 to added glx and
nv per the readme. I get about 10fps less in linux than windows, I would bet
that I have some mesa lib's laying around, just never bother looking for them.
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 19:46, Onur wrote:
> Hello Jerry,
>
> JS> I sent this a couple of days ago and it seems it never made it to the
> list.
>
> JS> I will be getting an intel 815e motherboard with onboard sound and
> 4Xagp JS> graphics. I was wondering 2 things has anyone installed Mandrake
> 7.2 on JS> one of these, if so what "challenges" if any can I look forward
> to if any to JS> get the hardware recognized. I plan on doing a fresh
> install. According to JS> the intel FAQ I can anticipate it not seeing all
> of my memory for 2.x series JS> of kernels, it also looks like I will have
> to install a graphic driver from JS> intel for the agp support.
>
> JS> Also, since I currently use a Creatave TNT2 Ultra in 24bit will I be
> JS> disappointed by video performance, including openGL? The xfree86.org
> site JS> indicates 4.02 has improved DRI but only at 16. It does have a
> slot for JS> adding an agp video card if I choose, but I am wondering if
> this is worth the JS> added expense to play some games.
>
> JS> If anybody has some experience with these I would appreciate their
> feedback, JS> since I won't tackle this until the weekend I am trying to
> plan ahead.
>
> JS> Thanks
>
> JS> Jerry
>
> Basically and simply, this is the BEST you can buy now, this board is
> awesome great wonderful blah blah :) (am in electronics, and pc's for
> so long) and am saying it after trying really many different stuff,
> many many...
>
> Harddisk speed is great ( IDE controlling stuff I assume, is really
> good, working on my ata 66 quantum and ata 33 IBM and ata 100 maxtor)
>
> Soundcard is good enough for an onboard card, es1373, and works in
> linux:)
>
> Everything seems so good.
>
> I installed, with many different hardware configurations, on this
> board, so many distrubitions, and all mandrake above 6.1, many many
> times.
>
> I did not came across any sort of memory problem, I tried kernels from
> 2.13 to 2.4 tests. Tried different combinations.
>
> As far as I remember, that agp support thingy and the drivers at the
> intels site, were the files of 810, old stuff, and a source rpm as far
> as I remember. Honestiy, they did not do anything useful, and with
> XFree 4.0.1 I was getting good graphics with no addition from intel:)
> I might have not used agp support, but it did not change much as far
> as I remember. If you want it, and if am not wrong, you make it from a
> source rpm, and it did not cause me trouble on my Mandrake 7.2 while
> installing.
>
> I also have creative tnt2 ultra, with 32 MB ram. So here comes the
> only trouble I exzperienced. With mandrake 7.1 and earlier, (and many
> distributions), the ones with kernel below 2.2.16 , I had great
> performance using nvidia's own drivers, on 2D and 3D. (very great
> openGL) But with mandrake 7.2, only and only because of the kernel, I
> had trouble installing the nvidia's drivers on my linux box, even
> though I tried so much. If you use the xfree 4.0.1 drivers, tnt2 works
> great, in 2D, but I cant say much good for 3D.
>
> The trouble is something about the agpgart in kernel, which can not
> manage the agp stuff. It is something, I assume, that is about to be
> fixed or "patched" soon, just needs some attention, guess.
>
> I dont know about the ethernet on it, as you are getting the one with
> the ethernet on, I guess, but what I know the ethernet onboard is
> good, and I guess linux will recognize it easily.
>
>
> Onur
>
>
>
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