video card: comments please?

[Mike A. Harris]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, John Wendel wrote:

>> Linux 2.4 doesn't support AGP 8X, max is 4X.
>> IMO ATI _radeon_ is a safe and better inversion.
>
>The Nvidia drives do AGP 8X just fine, at least on my box.

By default Nvidia's proprietary binary only drivers use their own 
built in agpgart driver and do not use the Linux kernel's 
agpgart.  The Linux kernel 2.4's gart driver is limited to 4x.

Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> maintains the upstream agpgart 
nowadays, and might be able to comment further perhaps.


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