nForce2 GART Driver Finally Released For Linux

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 21, 2003 @07:52PM from the expanding-choices dept.

Rejoice, Radeon owners! For those of you who bought an nForce2 motherboard with the hopes of doing a bit of linux gaming on it, I'm sure it was a pretty hard let down to find out there was no AGPGART driver for the nForce2 -- until now. nVidia has finally released a kernel patch for the 2.4.20 release that is now providing GART support. Perhaps this means that nVidia is re-thinking their closed source-isms in favor of a more open policy in the future. A note on AGP 3.0: Note that AGP 8x mode is not available in 2.4.xx series kernels. If you find that X will not start, try disabling 8X mode in your BIOS. AGP3.0 has been implemented in the 2.5 series.

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So that's why.. by chendo · 2003-06-21 20:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

.. I couldn't get AGP to work with 8x :/

A bit offtopic, but does anyone have a guide for 2.4 users to upgrade to 2.5? Lots of options seem to have moved/removed, and I dunno what to choose for my DFE-530TX card.

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Re:In other news... by ihatesco · 2003-06-22 09:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

>MODERATE SCO POSTINGS DOWN!
quite, parent shall be modded down immediately.
This is what I call sane irony ;)

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