Re: agp
Mario Carugno <mario_carugno@fullzero.com.ar> said:
> Hi.
>
> I would to know if i can use agp cards with Debian, and if there's some
particular
> model that is recomended for using.
>
> Thanks
>
The AGP bus is transparent to the PCI bus, which is to say that when you run
`lspci', AGP devices show up as well. The primary difference between AGP (1x)
and PCI is about four times the total bandwidth, so even a chip that was
originally meant for PCI devices still works a heckuvalot faster on AGP. If
you want a good, fast, reliable, well-supported card (2D and 3D), I'd highly
recommend a Voodoo3, preferably a 3000 or 3500 model (3500's have video
capture stuff on the card, but are otherwise the same as a 3000). The
downside to a V3 is that you are limited to the color depth on 3D stuff
(16-bit only), but most of the other drivers are limited the same way, even if
the hardware can do better.
HTH
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