Mario Carugno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi. > > I would to know if i can use agp cards with Debian, and if there's some particular > model that is recomended for using. > > Thanks >
The AGP bus is transparent to the PCI bus, which is to say that when you run `lspci', AGP devices show up as well. The primary difference between AGP (1x) and PCI is about four times the total bandwidth, so even a chip that was originally meant for PCI devices still works a heckuvalot faster on AGP. If you want a good, fast, reliable, well-supported card (2D and 3D), I'd highly recommend a Voodoo3, preferably a 3000 or 3500 model (3500's have video capture stuff on the card, but are otherwise the same as a 3000). The downside to a V3 is that you are limited to the color depth on 3D stuff (16-bit only), but most of the other drivers are limited the same way, even if the hardware can do better. HTH -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.atipa.com Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550
