On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:49 am, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:25, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have followd the 'bughunting tread' and have notist that my fast > > writing also is not working, and its enabled !. > > > > Is this because the host-bridge does not Support fast writing ? > > yes. > Both the card and the AGP-part have to support Fw (or SBA) to be able > to enable it. > > You can not switch something on, that is bot there. > Maybe a different bios will help you, maybe newer drivers, maybe > nothing. > > It does not matters. > Fw&SBA do not give any noticable speed gains. The differences are in > the range of statistical noise. > > On the other hand, Fw&SBA makes a pretty fine system unusable. Ever > heard of lockups? I mean, frequent ones? Hourly? > > I had that, disabling FW in the bios, killing the options-line.. > system was back stable. Speed gain? No! Problems? Oh yeah! > > Don't be worry, you don't miss anything without SBA&Fw. > > Gl�ck Auf, > Volker > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
I decided to test whether or not fastwrites made a difference on my system. I commented the line: #options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1 in /etc/modules.d/nvidia, closed the X session, did: # modules-update and restarted X a # cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status shows: nvidia $ cat agp/status Status: Enabled Driver: NVIDIA AGP Rate: 4x Fast Writes: Enabled SBA: Enabled What am I missing? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
