On Thursday 13 March 2003 11:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A few questions tho... XFree86 4.3.0 is supposed to support the Radeon > 9700 (to what extent... I couldn't find any info on their site). I > think the agpgart might be the prob. I am wondering if the agpgart > module supports at least the nforce (not the nforce2) chipset. If I am > not mistaken it doesn't though it has been on the market for quite a > while now. That is probably due to the lack of support from nvidia. I > am thinking of helping reverse engineering the AGP part of the board so > we could have support also for nforce2, but I dunno how to do that. I > am a programmer myself but never went that deep in linux stuff. I would > need all the help I can get on this matter.
You are correct, it is the 3D stuff that is not well upported. I understand ATi is trying to do some drivers, but that seems a recent effort and they will need to understand the software engineering process for linux well enough to accomplish it, which may take a few failed efforts. > Second question would be: Is there any chance to tell XFree 86 not to do > those strict tests anymore? The system on which the problem is, is my > "play station" so I am not that sad if linux gets trashed in the > process (I can always reinstall and start all over again). OK yes there is a way. One method is examining DrakX/XFdrake code to find the differences between that and the standard XFree Server... A somewhat simpler solution that might have the same effect is examining the XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11/ and removing all unwanted modes/screens since it may be one of those that is causing the problem. > Any chance of finding usefull stuff in implementing the agpgart for > this board from the NVIDIA_kernel sources which builds the NVAGP? I've > seen they provide a tarball and sorce rpm for unsupported linux > versions, and their NVAGP is supposed to work with the nforce2... > Ummm, the tarball and source rpm have huge binareis embedded within. The purpose of the "source" is to provide a wrapper for compiling as a kernel module, else they would be building binaries for EVERY new kernel issued. > Best regards, > Adrian Good luck, Civileme
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