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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.hemmann@heim9.tu-clausthal.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch?] SiS 746 AGP-Support
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 03:05:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030425020530.GA18673@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304250302.26791.volker.hemmann@heim9.tu-clausthal.de>

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:02:26AM +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:

 > I have only a AGP 2 (geforce 4-mx) card, so I missed that(and with one I would 
 > only to be able to say 'it doesn't work' so thanks for your explanation). But 
 > without this changes I won't even able to use dga, because the first 
 > dga-enabled app completely locks up my box. 
 > And to have working AGP2 and non working APG3 looks a lot better for me than 
 > no AGP-support at all.  

Sure, I wasn't objecting per'se to the patch, but people should be made
aware it's not going to help them a tiny bit if they have an AGP3 card.
It may just abort nicely, it may take down the machine in horrible ways
depending on how well SiS handles reads/writes to disabled registers.

		Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-25  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-25  0:24 [Patch?] SiS 746 AGP-Support Hemmann, Volker Armin
2003-04-25  0:40 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-25  1:02   ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2003-04-25  2:05     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-04-25  6:55       ` Hemmann, Volker Armin

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