On Saturday 10 September 2005 04:27, Walter Dnes wrote: Radeon X300 is PCI-Express, so the slots are > probably different. > > Strange, but true. I can get the Radeon 7000 into my 6-year-old Dell's > AGP slot, but I can't get the old Rage Pro into the newer dead machine's > AGP slot, not that it matters. Oh well, at least my 6-year-old Dell > emergency backup has now been upgraded from an 8 megabyte RagePro to a > 32 megabyte Radeon 7000.
that is because of the different AGP standards (1,2,3.0) which have different voltages (3v,1,5v,0,8v) and different 'identifaction' keys, which prevent inserting a card into a slot, that could damage her with overvoltages and vice versa. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
