Core 2 Startup anomoly.....

Paul Duffy odubtaig at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jun 17 16:24:20 UTC 2004


On Thursday 17 Jun 2004 17:18, Dave Jones wrote:
> It's harmless. The driver doesn't know how to handle that chipset,
> so you'll not get any accelerated 3d.  This warning has been quietened
> in my agpgart tree, but Linus hasn't taken those patches yet.

That's not strictly true; the card may be supported but the northbridge chip 
isn't so while all the graphics card functions may be accessable the data 
transfer to and from the card will be slowed horrendously by the AGP slot 
acting as a normal PCI slot.

regards, Paul





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