Re: Via KT400 and AGP 8x Support

[Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>]

On Thursday 12 June 2003 07:36, I Am Falling I Am Fading wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Dave Jones wrote:
> >  > Tried it already... The pins are too small to get adequate purchase
> >  > for the tape -- the friction just causes it to slide around in the
> >  > slot and gets goo around.
> >  >
> >  > Superglue might be a better solution....
> >  > ...but I think the solder method is better.
> >
> > So rather than experiment with backporting the 2.5 code to 2.4,
> > you'd rather risk damaging your hardware ?
> >
> > I think this way is madness.
>
> Unfortunately even a perfect backport seems to be only a partial solution
> -- the ATI binary only drivers don't seem to know how to talk to the 2.5
> AGP 3.0 stuff anyway (well, at least they didn't work at all when I tried
> them under the 2.5 kernel :-/), and as they are lame binary-only drivers
> there is no way to fix that.
>
> There are also no other drivers for the R300-series Radeon GPUs. :-(
>
> This absolutely sucks, but turning the card into an AGP 2.0 card seems to
> be the only surefire way to get it to work properly under Linux. :-(

I'm not sure this will help the hardware situation, but you could try a
bus extender (it will make the board stick out of the slot a couple of 
inches).

It should allow you the option of either cutting the extender wire traces
or pull jumpers to see if things do work.