Re: AGP video for Linux?
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> Personally, I don't even know what AGP video is, so I am
> forwarding this to the debian-user mailing list.
>
> Bob
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> Erik Olsen <OlsenE@MarketDay.com> writes:
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> >
> > I was wondering if AGP video is supported by Linux yet. I did not see it on
> > the list of compatable devices/bus archetectures but was just curious.
AGP is a variation on the PCI bus specially for video cards. If you
want to know if a video card is supported, you have to check out the
XFree86 compatibility. Usually if a certain card or chip set is
supported, the AGP version is supported, so you can use it in X. If you
are in doubt about a certain card, just ask around on the various
mailing lists and news groups. If you want to use a card right now, it
is usually a bad idea to pick one that is only going to be supported
`real soon now'.
Another matter is support of the specific feature that AGP was meant
for: storing textures in main memory and sending them to the video card
at high transfer rates. I don't know if there is any support for that.
HTH,
Eric Meijer
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E.L. Meijer (tgakem@chem.tue.nl)
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
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