Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre2: AGP and the i810

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 08:16:22 EST


> - In the absence of any applications which actually do 3D rendering, is
> there any performance advantage to loading the agpgart module?

You need it for some new video cards (for example those cheap intel i810 boards
that are becoming extremely common).

> Absolutely _all_ the documentation I can find is focussed on its use with
> GLX, etc. I'm just looking to get faster tru-color X display from my
> NVidia RIVA (Diamond V550 16-MB). And, since I'm considering the purchase
> of a Matrox G400, what about that bit of hardware?

Except for the i810 I believe the other users are all the 3D direct rendering
users rather than any 2D work.

Alan

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Sep 07 2000 - 21:00:15 EST