On Friday 05 September 2003 05:42, Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:15:55 -0400 > > Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But not necessarily all the related hardware. I'm using the > > > nvidia drivers, but they crap out big time if I enable AGP, so I > > > have to run with AGP disabled. > > > > In My experience the AGP problem has a lot to do with your chipset. > > I couldn't run AGP on either of my VIA based boards. Switching over > > to an Nforce2 based board made the GeForce4 TI4200 ROCK! Glxgears > > runs at >6000 frames/second. Are you running a VIA chipset? > > Yes, of course. But my attitude: if the standard X drivers can run > this card with AGP on this chipset, why can't nvidia? I'm really not > interested in swapping motherboards just because the software can't > cut it, most especially since I'm not a gamer.
Does that Xfree driver provide acceleration? Here is your answer... I have found out that VIA's chips just didn't met the requirements until the newer VIA chips, which are quite good. By the way the only hope to get AGP support on newer chips are the Nvidia binary drivers as my SIS655. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
