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Skriven 2007-02-08 20:54:12 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Alan Hess
Ärende: hardware questions
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ml> AGP 4X
ml> AGP 2.0 4X spec support high performance graphic process purpose 
ml> and at a peak bandwidth of 2.1 GB/s.

ml> (note: AGP v2.0 and 4X speed. if that radeon card is higher, it 
ml> may not like it)

 AH> SNAP had no problem with it.  The bootup was faster (I couldn't
 AH> even see the eCS blob, it went by so fast), and the video was fine
 AH> when the desktop appeared.  But the mouse didn't work.  

too fast to hit F2, eh? ;)

 AH> If I tried to boot with Airboot installed and the Radeon in,
 AH> Airboot reported a problem with the disk and halted the system.

i swear that sounds like a IRQ sharing problem or something... did Airboot
report anything more meaningful??

ml> DDR333
ml> Supports up to 2GB of un-buffered DDR200/266/333 and 3.5GB of 
ml> registered DDR200/266

ml> (note: un-buffered and registered and the DDRs and speeds for 
ml> each...)

 AH> Yep - I got the correct memory, as per the manual.

just trying to cover the bases... i can assume it was unbuffered 333??

ml> another thing is, did the video get switched back to plain VGA 
ml> before removing the old card and installing the new one? i 
ml> remember when this was a hugely important step...

 AH> I thought that wasn't necessary with SNAP graphics?  The impression
 AH> I got was that the driver recognizes new hardware without requiring
 AH> resetting to VGA.

i've tried the SNAP stuff on my warp3 connect fp40 and do recall swapping video
cards without the reset to VGA... i see in my notes (of that time) that i
thought it was a fluke and redid it with the reset just to ensure that i did do
it properly... FWIW: i don't think i'm using the snap stuff at this time... it
was years ago and things were different then... besides, the ATI drivers for
this ATI card have done all i ever needed them to do at the resolutions i
desired ;)

with the recent news of SNAP going to be sold, i guess maybe i ought to go grab
them while i still can... they might come in handy if i can ever get around to
installing Warp 4 on something ;)

)\/(ark

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