Last night I got done putting together the sweetest PC I have ever owned. 8x AGP, 512 MB DDR, and a Radeon 9700 Pro. I built the system using LFS and then went to configure the X server. All flames aside, I have to admit that installing the ati fglrx wasn't too bad. However when I went to run X my heart nearly split in two. (and actually I should have guessed this.) The VIA P4PB Ultra (with its P4x400 chipset) is not naturally supported under 2.4.19. I've been shuttling around the net this morning at work and stumbled across a patch from Richard Baverstock that claims to add agp functionality to the 2.4.x kernel for this chipset. I wanted to check with folks on this board... anyone had any luck getting AGP / DRI running on this chipset?? oh dear god I hope so... otherwise I gotta sell this mainboard and get a new one.

please ObiWan, you're my only hope.


Ok, tried some new kernels and a couple patches. Its official there is no support at this time for AGP with this latest board and VIAs P4X400 chipset. As a result I'm searchine for motherboards... if you'd like to make a suggestion check out the latest post...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=48558

Hi,
Have you checked out this link at VIA?
URL http://forums.viaarena.com/messagevi...&keyword1=p4pb
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Hey,
I know this is like kicking a dead horse, but listen to this one.
I had a full MDK 9.1 installation on a Tyan 2090 i845 Trinity M/B with a P4/2.0 CPU, GF4/4600 with the latest NVid drivers. Worked fine. I then upgraded the motherboard 3 days ago to a Via P4PB-FL PX400 chipset (built-in firewire, usb20, sound, lan) and 256MB of Kingston DDR/333MHZ/2700 ram.
WIthout doing 'anything', I booted into Mandrake, and except for the boot going a little slow for 'new' parts discovery, it worked great. Everything worked, and I didn't have to do a thing. I sat there amazed. I didn't believe it at first, but then went to X11 log file to make sure AGP was set to 4 and yes it was. GLX gears pegged out at 5221 FPS (fine with me). Now, I may not have ATA133 or AGP8 (because I don't have the equipment yet), but I'll tell you what, when I tried this doing the Win2K on the other hard drive, I had to jump through hoops to get Win2K to boot again. I had to make the box stupid again, and use windows setup program to 'update' the box (which really means make it stupid again), meaning after the upgrade I had to download mucho megabytes from MS to get everything working again.
But Lunix worked out of the gate, so sweet.
I just had to share this one.