Re: ATI PCI-E cards, fglrx and Fedora

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On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:52:28PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
 > Dave,
 >     Thanks for the clarifications. So I assume that if I use the ATI
 > fglrx driver with its "use internal agpgart code" option set to no that
 > the only reason the kernel agpgart module might get loaded on a machine
 > with a PCI-E graphics card would be to satisfy the fglrx kernel module
 > dependencies (since a single version of the fglrx kernel module is
 > used with all ATI cards). However on a PCI-E based machine the loaded
 > agpgart module would be dead unused code as far as the real operations
 > of the fglrx driver were concerned.

If the fglrx drivers support PCI-E, then the setting of the agpgart
option shouldn't make any difference at all. It should just ignore
it, and go about doing its thing.
(Whether its setup to use the in-kernel one, or its own).

		Dave


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