[H-GEN] Support for Plug'n'Play?

Frank Brand fbrand at uq.net.au
Wed Jun 16 08:15:05 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Frank Brand <fbrand at uq.net.au>)

Raymond Smith wrote:

> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Raymond Smith <raymonds at uq.net.au>)
>
> Hi,
>
> [Ok Robert, here is some traffic!]
>
> The time has come to upgrade from my ancient Pentium 60. And so I walk in
> the valley of the shadow of Plug'n'Play.
>
> Does Linux (the kernel, drivers, whatever) support Plug'n'Play? If so,
> what are the details? Looking around the web I could only find stuff on
> ISA Plug and Play cards and Linux -- this doesn't seem relevant as I
> imagine all my peripheral cards will be PCI?
>
> Also, does AGP require special support?
>
>

Yes AGP can be a bit problematic. I have a 16 Mb Riva TNT wich works like a charm but
I have tried some Trident 975 cards (which are listed as OK in the X docs) but they
DO NOT WORK with Linux. The i740 cards now have a driver but the Banshee is just
reaching maturity


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Frank Brand
E-mail: fbrand at uq.net.au
Home Page: http://www.uq.net.au/~zzfbrand




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