8x AGP under linux?

8x AGP under linux?

[Casey Lancour]

Does anyone know the status to 8x agp support under linux?
I am using the Granite bay 7205 chipset and I cant get my geforce4 card
to use agpgart or nvidia's agp support, it seems to be defaulting to pci
mode (not even using 4x agp).
I do a:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status

which is my indication that i am not using agp bus to its fullest.


     -=Casey

Re: 8x AGP under linux?

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:00:56AM -0600, Casey Lancour wrote:
 > Does anyone know the status to 8x agp support under linux?
 > I am using the Granite bay 7205 chipset and I cant get my geforce4 card
 > to use agpgart or nvidia's agp support, it seems to be defaulting to pci
 > mode (not even using 4x agp).
 > I do a:

For 2.4, there is a patch for that chipset (that didnt get merged
to mainline). 2.5 has it supported out-of-the-box, but likely
breaks with your binary nvidia driver.

		Dave

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

RE: 8x AGP under linux?

[Tolentino, Matthew E]

Casey, I can send you the 2.4 patch for the E7205/E7505 chipsets that I posted a while back that also incorporates AGP 3.0 support if you are interested.  However as Dave mentioned, I did have quite a bit of trouble with the Nvidia 8x binary only driver, so ymmv....

matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Jones [mailto:davej@codemonkey.org.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:36 AM
> To: Casey Lancour
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: 8x AGP under linux?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:00:56AM -0600, Casey Lancour wrote:
>  > Does anyone know the status to 8x agp support under linux?
>  > I am using the Granite bay 7205 chipset and I cant get my 
> geforce4 card
>  > to use agpgart or nvidia's agp support, it seems to be 
> defaulting to pci
>  > mode (not even using 4x agp).
>  > I do a:
> 
> For 2.4, there is a patch for that chipset (that didnt get merged
> to mainline). 2.5 has it supported out-of-the-box, but likely
> breaks with your binary nvidia driver.
> 
> 		Dave
> 
> -- 
> | Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> | SuSE Labs
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