video cards

[Jon Pruente]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
>  >  What does PCIe have to do with an AGP system?
>
>  As I understood it, the HD chips are PCIe native and need to have a
>  bus translation chip (that I don't recall the model/chip name of) to
>  run on AGP systems, and that chip was the main source of problems,
>  both on Windows and Linux, but much more so on Linux.
>
>  Jon.
>

I re-discovered that it is the ATI RIALTO chip that translates PCIe
native chips to the AGP bus, and it dates back to the X8xx series, at
least in some articles.

Jon.