Latest working kernel version: None Distribution: Gentoo Hardware Environment: MB is an (old) Asus P4S8X # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 645xx (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 04) 00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 ND [Radeon 9700 Pro] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 [Radeon 9700 Pro] (Secondary) Software Environment: xorg-server-1.3.0.0 Problem Description: I have a AGP8x capable Motherboard and an AGP8x capable video card but AGP8x never worked for me. It says that bridge isn't capable. A snip of dmesg: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: X requested AGPx8 but bridge not capable. agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: SiS delay workaround: giving bridge time to recover. agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading R300 Microcode [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs Thanks!