Re: AGP Support in PesasosII
in response to myself, the pegasos website
(at least the au reseller) doesnt make a big deal out
of the agp bus. infact it just calls it an agp 'slot' not
a bus. which makes my old voodoo3 3500tv an appealing
choice if i had such a motherboard
so they have weezled their way out of providing proper
agp support. making my hard earned (ok thats debatable,
i work in IT) cash less likely to transfer to their accounts
i can probably get a second hand g4 1ghz for cheaper
anyway... *shrug*
Dean
On Sun, January 23, 2005 12:08 am, Dean Hamstead said:
> pegasosii has no true AGP? *shudder*
>
> and to think i was planning on buying on
>
> how many people are using pegasos machines?
>
> Dean
>
> On Sat, January 22, 2005 11:48 pm, Sven Luther said:
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:23:57AM -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 11:03 +0100, Bartosz Soko??owski wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I discovered strange behavior of QuakeII. In software rendering mode
>>> it
>>> > works fine (20-30FPS) but looks ugly. In GL mode it looks much better
>>> but
>>> > performace is VERY bad. When I start the game I have approx 80FPS but
>>> when
>>> > I see some opponents and start shooting them the performance drops
>>> > dramatically to 5FPS!!!!! CPU load at this moment is about 30-40%
>>> > accorting to top, so it doesn't seem to be CPU load problem.
>>> > Can someone explain me whats wrong?
>>>
>>> For one, the lightmapping method used by the Quake 2 engine is known to
>>> work very inefficiently with the free DRI drivers. Try
>>>
>>> set gl_ext_multitexture "0"
>>>
>>> in config.cfg.
>>
>> Nice to know.
>>
>>> > I did some investigation and found out that my Radeon 8500 works in
>>> PCI
>>> > mode, not AGP mode (see log file below). May it be a problem?? How to
>>> > force Radeon to AGP mode??
>>>
>>> AFAIK the Pegasos doesn't actually have an AGP bridge.
>>
>> Indeed, it only has a pci-x slot which is camouflaged as AGP, for the
>> sake
>> of
>> using cheap agp cards, and not having to go for pci ones.
>>
>> BTW, Michel, i have been getting reports of DRI not working on pegasos 2
>> with
>> PCI radeon cards, do you have access to such a card and could maybe test
>> the
>> truth of this claim ?
>>
>> Friendly,
>>
>> Sven Luther
>>
>>
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