Re: achieving 2x/4x AGP (was Re: [Dri-devel] Congrats on latestRadeon in trunk)

[Gareth H. <ga...@va...>]

Iain Thomas wrote:
> 
> Oh, I'm using 'Option "AGPMode" "4"' and 'Option "AGPSize" "64"' on an ATi
> Radeon, using the ati driver, and all seems well (not counting others,
> who seem to have no end of problems; I think I'll blame Kernel 2.4, and
> stay at 2.2.18...)..

AGPSize = 64 is pointless at the moment.  AGP textures aren't supported,
so anything more than the default setting is pointless.  This should
change one day, and it will certainly become important when we do
smarter AGP DMA buffer handling.

> AGPSize is nicely documented in, er, the source... Not recommended if
> you're chronically short of RAM though. (think AGP textures etc.)

Perhaps someone could volunteer to update the User's Guide?  I know I'm
flat out at the moment...

-- Gareth