[ale] Which AGP Video card?

[warp at whitestar.soark.net (Zephaniah E. Hull)]

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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu wrote:

> I'm getting a new PII desktop system with AGP video port.

*droll*
<snip>
> Does this mean that the Diamond Stealth II G640 AGP won't work with Red Hat
> 5.1?

I don't know about the G640 however the Diamond Stealth II uses the
Rendition v2x00 chip, Xi has a accelerated X server for said ship however
its $99.. (The full blown redhat may actualy have it, I don't remember
which X servers redhat ships with)..

SuSE has a unaccelerated X server which is a bit slow, but it does work..

I also understand that the support for the rendition chip will be in the
next release of Xfree, I'm not sure on the acceleration of it tho.. 

(Note that you CAN use the SuSE and Xi servers with redhat however you may
have to do a bit of tweaking for it to run perfectly)
> 

> I don't want to buy a special card and then have drivers developed for
> a more popular card in two months.

I know how that goes..

> Does the compatibility only effect the X-Windows apps like XFree86?  

XFree86 is the X server, but yes.. (Well, it also effects svgalib stuff
but thats another issue entirely)

> Can I install, but not run X-Windows until a driver is developed?

Or you can simply not install X-Windows, I don't have it installed and
have not for quite some time (The reason I know about this is because I
have a Stealth II)..

> Who's running AGP video under Linux?  What cards are you running?

Sorry, not me..

> I apologize if this question was asked before.  Why can't I search the ALE
> mail archives?

Erm, no idea, but its a good question..

On another note, the v2x00 is a 2D/3D card HOWEVER we currently do not
have documentation for the 3d microcode, meaning we probley won't be
seeing 3D acceleration on the v2x00 for a while.. :/

Hope this helps..

Zephaniah E, Hull.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stan
> 

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