one thing you will run into is that if your new motherboard supports 8x and your radeon supports 8x, you will need a patched version of agpgart that supports 8x or the DRI will not work if you are using linux 2.4.x. 2.6 supports 8x natively. Just a heads up. Alex --- tacorner@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I signed onto the developer list too now. When the computer comes, I > am > thinking of trying driver snapshots or CVS versions. I have heard > that ATI does > not support their own driver very well. > > Thanks again, > Tom > > On 20-Nov-2003 Alex Deucher wrote: > > The drivers do not currently have support for agp 8x. Michel has a > > patch on his website from ati, but it hasn't been applied/tested > yet as > > far as I know. I don't have the link off hand. I doubt you will > > notice any difference between 8x and 4x. > > > > Let me know how it goes. > > > > Alex > > > > --- tacorner@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Thanks. I don't get to test it until the laptop with radeon > mobility > >> 9200 > >> comes next week. I understand the 9200 is the same as the 9000 > >> except that the > >> agp is 8x instead of 4x. Can I specify agp 8x to take advantage > of > >> the higher > >> speed? > >> > >> Thanks again, > >> > >> Tom Corner > >> > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > > http://companion.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > --------------------------------------------------- > |\/\/\___/\/\/| Carol Anne Corner & > \____ o o ____/ Thomas Corner tacorner@xxxxxxxxx > ) ( 20-Nov-2003 16:50:41 Vienna, Austria > ( * * ) mailer: xfmail > \___/ Web Page: www.corner.chello.at > --------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
