video card: comments please?

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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:22, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 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.
> 

I was under the impression that the Nvidia drivers only used their
AGPGART when the kernel AGPGART was not loaded.  Otherwise you have to
specify a OPTION to enable NVidia AGPGART.

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