On Wednesday 12 March 2003 09:21 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > Hi mates, > > I managed to solve my crash problem with the A7V8X and 1GB of mem by > changing it against a A7N8X :). Easiest sollution ever (but expensive tho > > :) ). Anyway, my problem now is that I am sick of running my Radeon as > : Vesa. > > Till now agpgart doesn't want to load on this board (nforce2 chipset) even > with agp_try_unsupported=1 and nvidia provides no driver for its agp beside > the nvagp module in the drivers for their graphics cards. Since I have an > ATI card I am not sure how to make it work in a better mode than vesa on my > mainboard. I read a lot of things on the net and I can shorten the long > story to the following: > > 1. Some suggesting to try to install the NVIDIA rpm and then use the nvagp > module with the ATI card. No answer from the original poster if it worked. > > :/ > > 2. The current kernel agpgart module lacks the description for this card > and though some people offered to write the driver provided someone can > help with collecting the needed info, the post was left "in the air", so no > news there... > 3. Some reported they managed to run their Radeon 9700 Pro as "pci" and not > "AGP" on this type of motherboard, but also no details provided upon how to > do that?!? PCI is a lot better than vesa anyway, but have no clue how to do > that. They said they got 320fps in glxgears. > 4. Some said that AGP is needed just to do some texture loading(?!? > whatever that is), but if the card has enough memory on the card (radeon > 9700 Pro comes with 128MB) you don't absolutely need it and that you can > run it as PCI (again?!? but again no clue how?!?) and works just fine (just > a tad slower than if ran in AGP on other motherboards where agpgart support > exists. > > I am as clueless as a baby in a topless bar :) about how to get the best > out of my card under linux. I really want to try some gaming under linux, > but with vesa mode and Mesagl I can go smoke a cigar till next frame comes > on the screen.... Please help. > > Best regards, > Adrian
Well the truth is that the ATi boards are very poorly supported in linux, largely because tech info is so hard to get out of ATi, so drivers usually run a few generations behind the current ATi board models. Recently ATi has shown some interest in providing drivers ... If they would open the source, things would be much easier for all concerned. Civileme
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