> > Personally, I don't even know what AGP video is, so I am > forwarding this to the debian-user mailing list. > > Bob > > Erik Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I was wondering if AGP video is supported by Linux yet. I did not see it on > > the list of compatable devices/bus archetectures but was just curious.
AGP is a variation on the PCI bus specially for video cards. If you want to know if a video card is supported, you have to check out the XFree86 compatibility. Usually if a certain card or chip set is supported, the AGP version is supported, so you can use it in X. If you are in doubt about a certain card, just ask around on the various mailing lists and news groups. If you want to use a card right now, it is usually a bad idea to pick one that is only going to be supported `real soon now'. Another matter is support of the specific feature that AGP was meant for: storing textures in main memory and sending them to the video card at high transfer rates. I don't know if there is any support for that. HTH, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
