some Questions....

[luis_tux]

I am currently using Slackware 8.1(About to update to 9.0), on a AMD based Box.
I am thinking of upgrading my vid. card to a MSI GeForce 4 TI4200-8X, and was wondering if the drivers on the MVidia website will be compatible with that card. And if so...if i could use the Vid. IN feature on the card.


If not, is there another model of vid. card that i could have that has the same specs?(Vid-IN, Vid-Out, dual output)

[bwkaz]

The AGP 8x will cause problems in Linux if you use an AGP 8x mainboard and don't throttle the bus back to 4x (example: do a search for "kt400" in this board -- there are tons of people that can't get AGP 3.0 to work with that chipset).

If your motherboard is AGP 4x only, though, then assuming it'll even plug in (I think it will, but I don't know for sure), you should be OK.

The TV in might cause issues, too, though. I think that rivatv (search www.freshmeat.net for that one) works with it, but perhaps not. I remember something about rivatv, just not whether or not it works.

[luis_tux]

i have an ASUS A7V8X board, and my 4x GeForce2 fitted fine on it, and i'm having no problems at all so far.

But its really good to know that i can't use 8x on linux, since i dual-boot win2k and linux, there's not much use in buying a board that will either not work on linux, or not use all its capabilities on windows.

I think i should just buy a video capture board that would be compatible w/ linux.(I think there's some kernel options on that)

But i'd really like to use that board... :(

[bwkaz]

The thing is, AGP 8x may not work now, but it should work relatively soon. It's just a matter of getting enough bugfixes into the Linux kernel agpgart code.

That said, if you can't wait, I'd try something other than 8x. Or, use the motherboard you have and that video card, and just throttle it back until a working AGP 3.0 kernel driver comes out.

[luis_tux]

Well...what I was thinking of doing is exacly that...use 4x AGP on it...although the board and the card supoprt 8x, the biggest "bottleneck" on my system is the HD anyways.

I just want the video-In to work...i can continue to live with 4x w/o a problem...is better have a bit slower system rather than a unstable one...after all..if i didn't care for stability I'd use a certain OS from Redmond more often... ;)