On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 22:32, Charlie M. wrote: > -----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
Charlie, what do you think the chances are the 2.6 would run on 9.1? (I won't even ask about Win4Lin enabling it *grin*) I need to do some experiments and I need a known system to make sure that any problems I have are kernel related not otherwise. Thanks. James
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