[H-GEN] question

[Robert Brockway]

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Byron Ellacott <bje at apnic.net> wrote:
: [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and
: Unix-related topics. ]

: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Stephen Brine wrote:

:> How is agp with Linux ? or Linux with agp
:> I am about to put it on a P2 machine with a 8 meg s3 AGP card and a PCI 
:> sound card.
:> that's right how would it go with PCI sound also

: AGP is a marketing gimmick.  If the Linux kernel has support for the
: chipset in question, it'll work with AGP or PCI regardless.  The s3's
: typically do NOT work regardless of what type of card they are. ;)

The AGP bus is a PCI bus optimised for graphics.  As Frank Brand and
others mention it is quite fast.  The big boost is that it is a _seperate_
bus to the system PCI bus.  The ISA bus and the PCI bus on a board are
normally linked afaik but the AGP is seperate.  Having said that I had a
lot of trouble with an AGP card recently.  Now I am back with my PCI s3
Virge (DX,GX?) and happily running X well.  The poor performance with the
AGP card may have more to do with the fact that it was an sis6326 which
has marginal support in X at best. 

One day I'll reuse the card.  I've seen sis6326 AGP cards do fine under
Winblows so it appears to be a matter of drivers.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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