"Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was
Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out
Patrick> that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev
Patrick> driver. Has there been any work on getting X to run
Patrick> natively? fbdev performace, while not horrible, isn't
Patrick> really the best, and it'd be nice to have X directly
Patrick> working with my Radeon 9600XT card.
This will probably not be particularly helpful, but my G5 does not run
with fbdev (as far as I can tell anyway). However, I do have a
different card
Section "Device"
Identifier "GeForce FX5200"
Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:240:16:0"
EndSection
As I understand these things you do not need the AGP just because your
card is on an agp bus. I don't know AGP very well (but I was once very
intimately familiar with PCI), but I believe that unless you use the
AGP features they otherwise work just like a PCI device. I could be
completely wrong.....
The machine I'm writing this on has a US$25 card (an ATI XPert98, 2x
AGP, probably more like $5 these days :-) plugged into a 4x AGP slot
on the motherboard, but I do *NOT* have AGP running in my kernel
(2.4.27-k7, stock Debian). It works great.
I'm pretty sure I did not try AGP support on the G5 either (power4
2.6.8-9 Debian). In fact I believe AGP support is not quite there
yet....but I hardly miss it (who needs AGP to run a stinkin emacs and
a few xterms, gcc and friends ;-)
Cheers!
Shyamal
