what is agpgart?

Apreche · Guru Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 506 Location: Beacon, NY

Ok, so I've been wondering. What exactly is agpgart? I mean, I know it has to do with the agp video card and the graphics and such. But I don't believe that I have it, yet my graphics are excellerated just fine. So what I'm asking is, what is agpgart? do I need it? if I want to have it, how can I make it go?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 7:43 pm Post subject:

Apreche,

AGPART is a driver that gets the best out of your AGP hardware. It is aimed at setting up the hardware to get the best data rate on the AGP interface. This is not the same as accelerated graphics.

Accelerated Graphics is a way of having the graphics card take the load off the processor. For eacmple, the graphics card gets a command to draw a shap and fill it with colour instead of the processor drawing every pixel and doing all the calucations for the drawinf too.

Do you need AGPART?
Only for apps that benefit from a lot of video bandwith. This has typically been to shift 3D graphics textures from main memory to the display.

How do you get it?
Check by doing

mike4148 · l33t Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 641

Do also note that nVidia supplies binary-only AGP drivers specific to their 3D chips. If you're using an nVidia card, one or the other might be faster for you; if you're not, then agpgart is the only way to go. For more info on that, search the forum system for nvidia and read the 12 billion posts on the issue.

Apreche · Guru Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 506 Location: Beacon, NY

okay, so is it safe to assume that nvidia-kernel and agpgart are redundant, and that I should only use one or the other?

rsk · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 3:09 am Post subject:

Yes, nvidia provides their own AGP module. So if you include the kernel one as a module, that's fine, the nvidia driver will attempt to load its own anyway. You can set