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nForce2 GART Driver Finally Released For Linux

Posted by Mr magoo on 22 June 2003 - 10:16 · 6 comments & 877 views

"Rejoice, Radeon owners! For those of you who bought an nForce2 motherboard with the hopes of doing a bit of linux gaming on it, I'm sure it was a pretty hard let down to find out there was no AGPGART driver for the nForce2 -- until now. nVidia has finally released a kernel patch for the 2.4.20 release that is now providing GART support. Perhaps this means that nVidia is re-thinking their closed source-isms in favor of a more open policy in the future. A note on AGP 3.0: Note that AGP 8x mode is not available in 2.4.xx series kernels. If you find that X will not start, try disabling 8X mode in your BIOS. AGP3.0 has been implemented in the 2.5 series."

View: drivers @ Nvidia.com

News source: Slashdot.org

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#1 Posted by MR_Candyman on 22 Jun 2003 - 12:42: this comes at the right time...on monday I install linux on my desktop again, which has nforce2 and a radeon card...

#2 Posted by CheeseCow on 22 Jun 2003 - 14:45: Sweet. When the 2.6.x kernel finally comes out, it will be a good day for desktop/gaming Linux users all over.

#3 Posted by Mgz on 22 Jun 2003 - 18:22: especially 2.6x is written by Linus , the GOD of Linux

#4 Posted by JLP on 23 Jun 2003 - 09:03: Yup I also can't wait for 2.6 to be out. I'm currently testing 2.5.72 and it runs very well. There are still a lot of bugs but these will get fixed.

#5 Posted by JLP on 23 Jun 2003 - 09:04: Sorry for multiple posts. IE is screwing up again here. I want Mozilla at work too...

#6 Posted by JLP on 23 Jun 2003 - 09:04: Sorry...

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