[H-GEN] AGP and USB

[Frank Brand]

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

Hilton Travis wrote:

> Is there any way to get Linux/X to recognise an AGP card?  I have a Banshee
> on this system, and a S3 ViRGE as a secondary card (multi-boot
> Win98/WinNT/Linux), and Linux only detects the PCI ViRGE.  I have AGP/PCI as
> the boot order in the BIOS.

>From memory there are a number of AGP cards that are supported. I do not think X supports
multiple cards (I may be corrected on this) so it will probably only pick up the first
card. I think Accelerated X might support multiple cards.

I believe there is an early version of support for the 3DFx Banshee at :
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/status.html ;-)
with a preliminary version available here (but I have not tried it):

   http://glide.xxedgexx.com/BansheeX-199902230.tar.gz


>
>
> Also, will there be USB support in the near future?  I have 2 USB modems I
> would like to have Linux recognise.

There is no support for USB in Linux 2.2...but it's coming. The following is a good wrap-up
of whay 2.2 will offer. USB was intended to be in Kernel 2.2 but things appear to have
gotten away from Linus and his team. The release was about 6 months later than expected
anyway.

http://linuxtoday.com/stories/296.html

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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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