Bug#515512: is it a solution?

[Brice Goglin]

Andrzej Zięba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I understand correctly these 'quirks' just force the driver to
> lower AGP mode for particular MB chipset/GPU model combinations.
>
> I mean, shouldn't the driver be capable to support proper AGP modes?
> This looks to me as sweeping under the carpet.

The driver is capable. But some hardware isn't. And there's no easy way
to detect such broken hardware so...

Brice