On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 17:24, Paul Duffy wrote: > On Thursday 17 Jun 2004 17:18, Dave Jones wrote: > > It's harmless. The driver doesn't know how to handle that chipset, > > so you'll not get any accelerated 3d. This warning has been quietened > > in my agpgart tree, but Linus hasn't taken those patches yet. > > That's not strictly true; the card may be supported but the northbridge chip > isn't so while all the graphics card functions may be accessable the data > transfer to and from the card will be slowed horrendously by the AGP slot > acting as a normal PCI slot. AGP GART functionality is only used for transferring textures between the card & main memory. That's it. You shouldn't be able to measure any difference at all with the agpgart module loaded or not on a chipset that supports it. Dave
