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Re[2]: AGP



On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:32:21 -0700 (PDT), Ira Abramov wrote:

>
>On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
>
>> offering AGP slots, I'd like to know if there's any real support for
>> AGP in Linux. I'm considering the ATI All in Wonder (mainly because
>
>well, we did that for DiamondMM's Viper V330 (AKA Windshield Viper) and it
>works fine after you switch around PCI cards to avoid an IRQ conflict.
>
Am I missing something ?? I thought PCI slots (and presumably AGP)
avoid IRQ problems (or is that only in Windoze??)


>on a final note, AGP is an Intel standard. Intel promissed to help the
>Linux community quite a few times in the last few months, specifically
>with I2O and Merced specs, and will announce on Tuesday about investing in
>RedHat (!), I believe AGP specs and drivers are on the way too...
>
sounds almost too good to be true


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