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If you're using Nvidia binary drivers, I believe you have the option of
using the Nvidia AGP support, or the kernel agpart support, but not both.
It's an option in XF86Config. Additionally, certain ALI chipsets cause
*all* AGP support to be disabled on certain Nvidia graphics cards.

I am unfortunate enough to have a GeForce4 MX in a machine with one of the
aforementioned ALI chipsets; hence I have no AGP support for my card. But,
it doesn't really bother me. It might if I did heavy-duty 3D gaming, etc,
but since I only use 2D XV video, it really doesn't make a difference.

Bottom line: you don't need AGP for MythTV (MythGame, well, that's another
story...)

-JAC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net]On Behalf Of Vinton Coffman
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 2:09 PM
> To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Is agp support necessary
>
>
> I just got my nForce2 based Shuttle MN31N mother board yesterday. I
> have the lan and ide working, however, the agp kernel support is not.
> Its a Asus 8190 Magic GeF 440 MX 8x AGP card. Since its not going to
> be processing 3d graphics, just mpeg2 and 4 from MythTV to the s-video
> out, do I need to be concerned.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions to help get this working, even better.
>
> I have RH 9 w/ a fresh copy of 2.4.20 patched to 2.4.21-rc2, nVidia
> graphic card driver 1.0-4363 for IA32, and nForce Drivers 1.0-0248. I
> think AGPGART is compiled into the kernel, not a module. Can't check
> right now, its at home.

My current understanding is that kernel agpgart does not support nForce.
So... if you want to use a nVidia-based mainboard + AGP, then you must
use a nVidia video card and the nVidia AGP module.


Joe





On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 13:38, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> If you're using Nvidia binary drivers, I believe you have the option of
> using the Nvidia AGP support, or the kernel agpart support, but not both.
> It's an option in XF86Config. Additionally, certain ALI chipsets cause
> *all* AGP support to be disabled on certain Nvidia graphics cards.
>
> I am unfortunate enough to have a GeForce4 MX in a machine with one of the
> aforementioned ALI chipsets; hence I have no AGP support for my card. But,
> it doesn't really bother me. It might if I did heavy-duty 3D gaming, etc,
> but since I only use 2D XV video, it really doesn't make a difference.
>
> Bottom line: you don't need AGP for MythTV (MythGame, well, that's another
> story...)
>
> -JAC
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net]On Behalf Of Vinton Coffman
> > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 2:09 PM
> > To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Is agp support necessary
> >
> >
> > I just got my nForce2 based Shuttle MN31N mother board yesterday. I
> > have the lan and ide working, however, the agp kernel support is not.
> > Its a Asus 8190 Magic GeF 440 MX 8x AGP card. Since its not going to
> > be processing 3d graphics, just mpeg2 and 4 from MythTV to the s-video
> > out, do I need to be concerned.
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions to help get this working, even better.
> >
> > I have RH 9 w/ a fresh copy of 2.4.20 patched to 2.4.21-rc2, nVidia
> > graphic card driver 1.0-4363 for IA32, and nForce Drivers 1.0-0248. I
> > think AGPGART is compiled into the kernel, not a module. Can't check
> > right now, its at home.
>
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The deal is that technically you should have no problem getting AGP to
work with the Nvidia provided linux drivers.... that is if they don't
lock your machine solid. I have an EP-8RDA+ I bought for running mythtv
on and whenever X starts to load, the system locks solid. It's been
widely reported on nvnews.net but nvidia doesn't seem to care much.

The other answer is that there is a patch for AGPGART (native Linux AGP
support) for nForce and nForce2 support.

http://etudiant.epita.fr:8000/~nonolk/

The question I would ask you is, if you aren't using Nvidia's driver,
how can you have Xvideo support in the first place? I can't use
nvidia's drivers with my system because they lock it up, and when I run
using the XFree86 nv driver, xvinfo reports my card as having no xvideo
support. I would have thought you would be in the same boat when using
the provided XFree86 driver.

Regards,
Aran



On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 13:08, Vinton Coffman wrote:
> I just got my nForce2 based Shuttle MN31N mother board yesterday. I
> have the lan and ide working, however, the agp kernel support is not.
> Its a Asus 8190 Magic GeF 440 MX 8x AGP card. Since its not going to
> be processing 3d graphics, just mpeg2 and 4 from MythTV to the s-video
> out, do I need to be concerned.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions to help get this working, even better.
>
> I have RH 9 w/ a fresh copy of 2.4.20 patched to 2.4.21-rc2, nVidia
> graphic card driver 1.0-4363 for IA32, and nForce Drivers 1.0-0248. I
> think AGPGART is compiled into the kernel, not a module. Can't check
> right now, its at home.
>
> I think I'm having issues with the built-in audio. It claims to only
> be enable for 2 channels. I have the nvidia/intel i810 module in the
> kernel and the nvidia driver install. I plan to use the alsa driver so
> I haven't really looked at this issue yet.
>
> TIA
>
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