Changing AGP speed

[Guest Kr0m]

I was wondering what the steps are in order to change my AGP speed from 4x to 2x.

I recently installed the latest ATI drivers (with some help of cource, I'm a n00b) and as far as I can tell, it has AGP enabled at 4x, which my vid card and motherboard are only compatible at speeds of up to 2x. I'm just trying to get Q3 running well. The game freezes a couple minutes into the game, it does the same as in windows when the AGP speed is set at 4x.

If someone could give me some step by step instructions on how to change the speed from 4x to 2x I'd appreciated it. Thanks.

 

Oops, forgot to post some info,

Mandrake 10.0

ATI Radeon 9200SE 128MB w/ Version: 3.9.0 ATI drivers

Edited July 8, 2004 by Kr0m

[Pzatch]

Just a wild guess but does your bios have an AGP setting?

[Guest Kr0m]

Just a wild guess but does your bios have an AGP setting?

No, I checked on that tonight.

[ac_dispatcher]

Try to ajust it in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Here its what mine looks like:

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "ATI"

BoardName "ATI Radeon"

Driver "radeon"

BusID "1:0:0"

Option "DPMS"

Option "AGPMode" "4"

Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"

Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"

EndSection

 

You would add the line:

 

Option "AGPMode" "2"

 

Also did you check what it says if you open a konsole and type:

 

$glxinfo

 

or for a shorter output try:

 

$glxinfo | grep AGP

 

This is what I get:

 

bash-2.05b$ glxinfo | grep AGP

disabling TCL support

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20030328 AGP 4x x86/MMX+/SSE2 NO-TCL

 

You can see Im running at AGP 4x

 

I had the same problem with a Nvidia card. The motherboard "irongate chipset" was sold as a AGP4x but it could only handle 1x. Anything more and you would crash.

[Guest Kr0m]

Here's my Device section:

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "ATI"

BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"

Driver "fglrx"

Option "DPMS"

 

# === disable PnP Monitor ===

#Option "NoDDC"

# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===

Option "no_accel" "no"

Option "no_dri" "no"

# === FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ===

# === Screen Management ===

Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000000"

Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"

Option "IgnoreEDID" "off"

Option "HSync2" "unspecified"

Option "VRefresh2" "unspecified"

Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"

# === TV-out Management ===

Option "NoTV" "yes"

Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"

Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0"

Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"

Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"

Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"

Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"

Option "TVColorAdj" "0"

Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"

Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"

# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===

Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"

# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===

Option "VideoOverlay" "on"

# === OpenGL Overlay ===

# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay

# will be disabled automatically

Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

Option "CenterMode" "off"

# === QBS Support ===

Option "Stereo" "off"

Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"

# === Misc Options ===

Option "UseFastTLS" "0"

Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"

Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"

Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"

# === FSAA ===

Option "FSAAScale" "1"

Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"

Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"

Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"

EndSection

[Guest Kr0m]

$ glxinfo

name of display: :0.0

display: :0 screen: 0

direct rendering: Yes

server glx vendor string: SGI

server glx version string: 1.2

server glx extensions:

GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

client glx vendor string: ATI

client glx version string: 1.3

client glx extensions:

GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,

GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float,

GLX_ATI_render_texture

GLX extensions:

GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.

OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9200SE DDR Generic

OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.9.0)

OpenGL extensions:

GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,

GL_S3_s3tc, GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_point_parameters,

GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,

GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,

GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,

GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,

GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_blend, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,

GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_ATI_element_array,

GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader, GL_ATI_map_object_buffer,

GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once,

GL_ATI_vertex_array_object, GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object,

GL_ATI_vertex_streams, GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3,

GL_ATIX_texture_env_route, GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size,

GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,

GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint,

GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,

GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,

GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,

GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,

GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,

GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,

GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic,

GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp,

GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array,

GL_EXT_vertex_shader, GL_HP_occlusion_test, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,

GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_occlusion_query, GL_SGI_color_matrix,

GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,

GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_multitexture,

GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays

glu version: 1.3

glu extensions:

GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

 

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav

id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat

----------------------------------------------------------------------

0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow

0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow

0x25 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow

0x26 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow

0x27 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None

0x28 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None

0x29 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None

0x2a 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None

0x2b 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow

0x2c 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow

0x2d 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow

0x2e 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow

0x2f 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None

0x30 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None

0x31 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None

0x32 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None

 

glxinfo | grep AGP doesn't show me anything at all.

[Guest Kr0m]

 

This is what I get when I do lsmod,

sis-agp 5568 1

agpgart 31016 2 sis-agp

 

 

I added the AGPmode line to the config, still didn't matter, tried it at 2 and at 1, crashed both times.

Not sure what else to do yet other than try and get those pesky drivers uninstalled?

Edited July 8, 2004 by Kr0m