K8V Deluxe Mobo & AGP 8x conflict

[Rory Gleeson]

Can anyone with a K8V series motherboard help test this possible bug?  I have 
a K8V se Deluxe but any K8V board will help (maybe even others which support 
AGP 8x, if you're comfortable with changing settings in your bios).

In another thread, I was experiencing graphic washout on my initial boot in to 
FC2 at the video to graphical hand-off, after Grub loaded and the initial 
text scrolled.  As a result, I could never get in to FC2 and always had to 
reboot.  I did not experience any graphical issues on install, however.  

I resolved the problem by going in to the bios:
Advanced > Chipset > AGP Bridge Configuration > AGP Mode: 8x

I changed AGP Mode to 4x and I booted in to FC2 without issue!  

Can anyone else with this motherboard report is they are booting in to FC2 in 
8x (default MoBo setting) with success.  Or, are you set to 4x/2x/1x?  If you 
switch to 8x (you may have to reboot and change by to 4x/2x/1x if your 
graphics wash out), what happens?  Can you report your experiences in this 
bug and CC: here?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125390

The issue is that AGP is not supported in Linux, I'm told.  Fair enough.  
However, I've loaded SuSE 9.1, Mandrake 10 Official/CE, MandrakeMove, 
SuSELive, Knoppix and Debian Sarge on a testing drive and haven't run in to 
this issue.  They have have workarounds.  So, all of those other distros are 
dealing with AGP differently.

I'm wondering if it's my specific motherboard, my video card combo or a more 
generally reproducible issue, which is where you come in.  

My combination:
K8V SE Deluxe (the SE version is the revised board with the capacitor issue 
fixed, along with some other tweaks)
AMD 64 Athlon 3000
ATI Radeon 9200 128mb (Sapphire)

Thanks,
Rory