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Re: Re[2]: AGP
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> >
> >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??)
but ofcourse old programs still exist and emulation will be with us
forever for backwards compatability. I have no idea why it does that and
what in XFree uses it. but fact was that there WAS a conflict, and simply
suffeling the cards on the bus solved it for us.
> >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
think twice. some people think this investment (which will officially be
announced here in San Jose tommorow, and includes both Intel and Netscape)
will single out the RH distribution and push it way forward, pull
developers and vendors in and finally delegitimize other distributions
(note I'm not saying Intel will do that directly by itself, but just the
fact they invested money in one specific company and not another could be
a major force change)
- References:
- Re[2]: AGP
- From: "Shlomo Solomon" <solomon@shani.net>