Re:

[Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

Hi Aquila

The chipset on A7M is "AMD 761", not VIA. But anyway, if I get you
right, I won't need to enable agpgart in the kernel at all. Thank you so
far, I'll try it out (can live without Q3A the first days, until I
figure it all out ...)

joerg

PS.: Sorry for the forgotten subject line, I hate it every time I see
mails on the list without subjects,. don't know why this must happen to
me...

Aquila wrote:
> 
> I have an ASUS A7V133, and the chipset is VIA. It should be the same for
> you, but you should consult your motherboard manual.
> 
> Since you're using a GeForce 2 GTS, you'll be using the nvidia kernel
> and X drivers. It needs either kernel AGP support or the nvidia AGP
> support, and you add the "NvAGP" option to your X config to choose
> between the 2. If you use the former, then you'll need to compile AGP
> support in the kernel.
> 
> Aq.
> 
> On 29 Jun 2001 15:54:34 +0200, Johannes Jörg wrote:
> > Hello List
> >
> > I'm going to migrate from a PIII 500 to an athlon.
> > My new Mainboard wil be an Asus A7M266. To use AGP (new GeForce 2 GTS,
> > hehe), what kernel option will I have to enable for /dev/agpgart? Is it the
> > "Irongate" chipset? I'm a bit confused because the kernel help says "you should
> > probably say N, unless you want to test the GLX component for XFree86 3.3.6",
> > but it says also "...gives you AGP support for the GLX component of the XFree86
> > 4.x on AMD Irongate chipset..."
> >
> > What does this mean?
> >
> > joerg
> >