[Gllug] AGP 4x

[Mike Brodbelt]

Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> 
> On Mon 08 Oct, Jarvis, Richie made the following spurious claims:
> 
> > The G400 does not support AGP 4x - that is the reason why.  It is a 1x card
> > - released before the 2x spec came out (hence the 2x compatible - i.e. it
> > will work in 2x boards at 1x)
> 
> It's not a G400 but a G450.  XFree86 sees it as such.  Mabye that's my
> problem?

The G450 is based on the same chipset as the G400, IIRR. It has an
additional TV out, and you may need to use the mga_hal closed source
library to make it perform properly. I think that XFree 4.1 supports
everything it can do with open source stuff, except the TV out. 

Mike.

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