-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 08:24 pm, J.C. Woods wrote:
> > To the original poster, François, and to Charlie. There is a lot of > confusion about using the Geforce4 MX 440 in Mandrake or, for that > mattter, any other Liunx OS using the 2.4.x kernel. I have posted > about this issue more than once but here it goes again. If your > Geforce4 MX 440, or any other video board, i.e. Radeon, is using AGP > 8X then you are using AGP 3.0, and are no longer using AGP 2.0. AGP > 3.0 is *NOT* supported in any 2.4.x kernel that I know of. There are > some patches out there but most of these are made to support 8X > Radeon cards (and are buggy at best). I have the Geforce4 MX 440 8X, > and I was able to compile the Nvidia drivers, and I did get them to > load but AGPGART would not work for the reasons outlined above. I had > graphics but color rendering was for shit. It seems the only solution > to 8X AGP 3.0 support is to wait for kernel 2.5. (at least, I hear it > will support this newer AGP version). The pivotal point is are you > trying to load modules for 8X AGP 3.0? > > Does anyone know the final kernel version in LMDK9.2? Now does the > foregoing elucidate or obfuscate this issue even more? > > drjung Hiya Doc; I know what you're saying but the point was moot for the guy I put the system together for, and for me. He just wanted clear, he's not much of a gamer so anything more than clear graphics was a side issue. The only reason the box actually has the card in it that it does was simple economics. A "regular budget card" was, at the time I picked up the components for his new toy, less than $7 cheaper. Some kind of a promotional 'special offer' a local retailer was running, $87 (prices are Canadian, which has no relationship to real money) for the MSI he has versus $81 for the next least expensive. I appreciate the explanation and the information but for me; and for the friend I built the box for, the latest super frame rate hot-rod video card, 8X AGP or not, or hypertrophied discombobulated whizzbang whats-its, were less important than the system's performance overall. Colour was fine, graphics are clear. It wasn't, and isn't, even trying to run at AGP 8X, the board it's on doesn't even support that to the best of my knowledge, so the card defaults to "legacy mode." AGP 2 I mean. I've assembled three very similar systems for different people using almost identical components, and nobody has complained at all. That's all I care about. My 18 year old son and his Radeon 9700 Pro on an NVidia2 chipset motherboard on the other hand.....<g> The kernel for 9.2 will be a version of the 2.4.22 series. The latest is shown in my signature. The 2.6 is available in contribs already, and the one I'm looking at right now is 2.6.0-0test.4.4mdk. The latest I suppose. I'll be installing it in a bit so I'll have a better idea what it's like. Best Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-7mdk 20:55:56 up 20:51, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.14, 0.09 "The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." - -- Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/YAjuG11CaRuZZSIRAgj+AJ4n/Q53Y0kSZED0L6L1BdnZ8ocd+ACePEhN Xzp4OSpsulWKsAiUkILFSR8= =NrWY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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