Does SuSE fully support AGP? Am I getting the full benefit of my AGP video card? Also, how do I go about enabling UDMA/33 on my system? I see "DMA disabled" in my bootup sequence. Thanks in advance. -- ____________________ Joseph A. Hylkema josephhy@wsu.edu Check out (and laugh at) my first crack at a website at http://seattle.resnet.wsu.edu "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of Tyrants, it is the creed of Slaves." --William Pitt, 1783 Support a Husky-Free Northwest GO COUGARS!!! PGP key upon request -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Heyas, Joe -
Does SuSE fully support AGP? Am I getting the full benefit of my AGP video card?
Well, what make & model of AGP card are you running? And under what resolution? Alpha -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> Hi All & joe, who wrote: <snip> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Does SuSE fully support AGP? Am I getting the full benefit of my AGP video card? Also, how do I go about enabling UDMA/33 on my system? I see "DMA disabled" in my bootup sequence.</blockquote> <snip> Ok, Alpha, you do the AGP bit... :-) for UDMA/33, thou, allow me to share my experience! Look up in usr/doc/(I think it is "packages") hdparm & @ the command line type the following & see what happens & compare to what you have read & then see me & everyone else on this list too if something is less than coherent. hdparm -d1c3X34 /dev/hda Other things being equal, this should get you going @ full speed on your first IDE drive. But, have you enabled UDMA in your BIOS, you may need to flash it-see you MB documentation.... *BFN* Greek Geek :-) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Here's what I got: root@seattle:/home/jhylkema > hdparm -d1c3X34 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 3 setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted setting xfermode to 34 (multiword DMA mode2) I/O support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) using_dma = 0 (off) root@seattle:/home/jhylkema > hdparm -d1c3X34 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 3 setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted setting xfermode to 34 (multiword DMA mode2) I/O support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) using_dma = 0 (off) That was gotten AFTER I went into the BIOS and "SET PIO/UDMA" mode to 2/4. Then I set "ENABLE ULTRA DMA HARD DISKS" to "auto." Now, I also have "PnP OS" enabled, could that have anything to do with it? Interestingly, the start-up screen STILL says "IDE DMA 0 disabled (bios)." I'm using an Asus P5A-B board with BIOS version 1007.1. Should I upgrade the BIOS? How about turning off "PnP OS"? Please note that I'm running Monkey$uck WinBlow$ on hda1, hda2 is the Linux drive. Thanks in advance. Bobby Geortgilakis wrote:
Hi All & joe,
who wrote:
<snip>
Does SuSE fully support AGP? Am I getting the full benefit of my AGP video card?
Also, how do I go about enabling UDMA/33 on my system? I see "DMA disabled" in my bootup sequence.
<snip>
Ok, Alpha, you do the AGP bit... :-)
for UDMA/33, thou, allow me to share my experience!
Look up in usr/doc/(I think it is "packages") hdparm & @ the command line type the following & see what happens & compare to what you have read & then see me & everyone else on this list too if something is less than coherent.
hdparm -d1c3X34 /dev/hda
Other things being equal, this should get you going @ full speed on your first IDE drive.
But, have you enabled UDMA in your BIOS, you may need to flash it-see you MB documentation....
*BFN*
Greek Geek :-)
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Joe Hylkema wrote:
Does SuSE fully support AGP? Am I getting the full benefit of my AGP video card?
It's not SuSE that's to blame for your card not being fully exploited, but partially the kernel and partially Mesa. Have a look at http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net for progress on the AGPGart module (required for AGP texturing), which has already been merged with the 2.3 series kernels. For now, in 2D and 3D operation, the 66MHz bus of the AGP subsystem is in use, making your daily work a smidge faster than a PCI card would ;). You didn't mention what video card you have...would you mind replying to the thread with that information?
Also, how do I go about enabling UDMA/33 on my system? I see "DMA disabled" in my bootup sequence.
You'd probably need to recompile your kernel for this. Firstly, you need to know which chipset your motherboard manufacturer used. Second, you want to download the latest kernel from ftp.us.kernel.org (2.2.14, since 2.2.15 is not *quite* ready yet). Third and finally, get familiar with building a kernel. If you post Video/chipset information, I'm sure that somebody can help you, if not myself. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | Kansas City, MO /\\ 816-241-2641 x107 | http://www.atipa.com _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
It's an Asus P5A-B with an Aladdin V chipset. My video card is an ATI Rage Fury 32MB. Jon Pennington wrote:
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Joe Hylkema wrote:
Does SuSE fully support AGP? Am I getting the full benefit of my AGP video card?
It's not SuSE that's to blame for your card not being fully exploited, but partially the kernel and partially Mesa. Have a look at http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net for progress on the AGPGart module (required for AGP texturing), which has already been merged with the 2.3 series kernels.
For now, in 2D and 3D operation, the 66MHz bus of the AGP subsystem is in use, making your daily work a smidge faster than a PCI card would ;). You didn't mention what video card you have...would you mind replying to the thread with that information?
Also, how do I go about enabling UDMA/33 on my system? I see "DMA disabled" in my bootup sequence.
You'd probably need to recompile your kernel for this. Firstly, you need to know which chipset your motherboard manufacturer used. Second, you want to download the latest kernel from ftp.us.kernel.org (2.2.14, since 2.2.15 is not *quite* ready yet). Third and finally, get familiar with building a kernel.
If you post Video/chipset information, I'm sure that somebody can help you, if not myself.
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Joe Hylkema wrote:
It's an Asus P5A-B with an Aladdin V chipset. My video card is an ATI Rage Fury 32MB.
You definately need a 2.2.14 kernel to run the ALi chipset at UDMA/33, and the Rage Fury definately needs the latest AGPGart patches from the Utah GLX project to work with AGP texturing et al. You need the newagp kernel patch (from http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net) applied to the kernel, along with Mesa and glx source trees from the same place. There's a pretty good NOWTO on that site outlining what is necessary to get these things operational. I will warn you that you may not notice any performance difference until XFree86 4.0 with DRI is ready (I speak from experience). As far as the 2.2.14 kernel, you need Andre Hedrick's patch to make the ALi chipsets work at their best doing DMA transfers. You can get more information on how exactly to tune your kernel in the TuneLinux section at http://www.linux.com. If you have specific questions about these procedures, and the documentation doesn't cover them, feel free to refer them back to this list. Good luck! :) -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | Kansas City, MO /\\ 816-241-2641 x107 | http://www.atipa.com _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> Hi ya Joe & Jon, who both wrote bits of what follows.... <snip> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>It's an Asus P5A-B with an Aladdin V chipset. My video card is an ATI Rage Fury 32MB. Jon Pennington wrote:
Also, how do I go about enabling UDMA/33 on my system? I see "DMA disabled" in my bootup sequence.
You'd probably need to recompile your kernel for this. Firstly, you need to know which chipset your motherboard manufacturer used. Second, you want to download the latest kernel from ftp.us.kernel.org (2.2.14, since 2.2.15 is not *quite* ready yet). Third and finally, get familiar with building a kernel.</blockquote> <snip>
I got UDMA going on my system, with the Standard Kernal that came with SuSE 6.3; ergo no recompile needed. But, you must have a BIOS/Board/HDD that can do UDMA & all the bits enabled before it will do UDMA. For both Borg & Tux, this means some leg work.... Good luck & you know where to find the Tux legions.... :-) Greek Geek 'Reilly's Law of the Kitchen: Cleanliness is next to impossible -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
* Joe Hylkema (josephhy@wsu.edu) [20000229 20:13]:
It's an Asus P5A-B with an Aladdin V chipset. My video card is an ATI Rage Fury 32MB.
I failed to notice which version of SuSE Linux you are using. If it's 6.3, install the kernel for special EIDE chipsets, it's got the support for the Aladin M5. And please set PnP OS to no in BIOS. This is for OSs like Windows 9X that like to do it all on their own. For Linux it's better to let the BIOS allocate appropriate resources (mainly IRQs). As for AGP, you're kind of lucky, as only the glx drivers for ATI and Matrox can take advantage of AGP. Nvidia seems to once again play the game of NDA. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrenstrasse 15-29, 90429 Nuremberg The only difference between a bug and a feature is you can turn a feature off. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
* Jon Pennington (jpennington@atipa.com) [20000229 20:41]:
You definately need a 2.2.14 kernel to run the ALi chipset at UDMA/33, and the Rage Fury definately needs the latest AGPGart patches from the Utah GLX project to work with AGP texturing et al.
Nope! If he's got 6.3, he can just install the special EIDE kernel. This one has Andre's UDMA patches. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrenstrasse 15-29, 90429 Nuremberg The only difference between a bug and a feature is you can turn a feature off. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote:
* Joe Hylkema (josephhy@wsu.edu) [20000229 20:13]:
And please set PnP OS to no in BIOS. This is for OSs like Windows 9X that like to do it all on their own. For Linux it's better to let the BIOS allocate appropriate resources (mainly IRQs).
This only became a problem for me after I got DSL. It worked fine in win$ but not in Linux and I couldn/'t find a way to get it to work. I knew I needed to turn of PnP but couldn't find a way to do it in the BIOS setup. No such item. Finally I looked again, and found an item called "Operating System" or some such, with choices Win 95, Win 98/NT 4, and Other. So I thought I would try other. I could always change it back if it were a disaster. But it did what I needed. DSL works now. So There are ways and ways of turning of PnP, some of them not clearly marked. This was an HP Pavilion 6330. Come to think of it, I shoudl post that to an HP support forum shouldn't I? -- Bob Rea Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg rear@sirius.com rrea@askjeeves.com http://www.sirius.com/~rear -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
It's 6.2. So do I upgrade the kernel to 2.2.14? Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Joe Hylkema (josephhy@wsu.edu) [20000229 20:13]:
It's an Asus P5A-B with an Aladdin V chipset. My video card is an ATI Rage Fury 32MB.
I failed to notice which version of SuSE Linux you are using. If it's 6.3, install the kernel for special EIDE chipsets, it's got the support for the Aladin M5.
And please set PnP OS to no in BIOS. This is for OSs like Windows 9X that like to do it all on their own. For Linux it's better to let the BIOS allocate appropriate resources (mainly IRQs).
As for AGP, you're kind of lucky, as only the glx drivers for ATI and Matrox can take advantage of AGP. Nvidia seems to once again play the game of NDA.
Philipp
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