speaking of agp apertures . . .

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, dep, wrote:
> . . . as was sort of done here in the last few days --
> 
> how does one determine the size thereof? for instance: i have a radeon 
> 9000 pro with 128 megs of memory. there is in my bios an agp aperture 
> setting. i haven't the foggiest notion what it's to be set to. what 
> does it affect? video performance? it can be set as low as 4 megs and 
> as high as 256 megs.

64 MB is usually sufficient.

> what are the considerations here?

None, really. For video performance, DRI handles the AGP stuff transparently
to you, so you shouldn'tneed to much of anything, with the possible exception
of enabling MTRR support in your kernel.

Kurt
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