On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 12:03:29AM +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote:
On Thursday 25 October 2007, Ward Vandewege wrote:
There are 2 pci slots. We've managed to enable one of them; the patch is not in the repo yet, but you can find the thread here:
http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-September/024688.html
There's a patch there to that enables the pci slot not on the edge of the board.
Only one? That's strange. You mean http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-September/024816.html ?
No, this is it (the thread continued into this month):
http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-October/025385.html
I think we can probably get the other one working by fiddling some more with the registers. I tried the most obvious things but to no avail yet.
I was not aware of PCI-E issues. I am successfully using a PCI-E video card.
That depends on your definition of succesful. I run an X850 radeon in that slot. There's no picture before X is up, and X startup alone takes two minutes thirty seconds or so.
I have picture before X is up.
There's a workaround for the slow X startup; add
Option "NoDDC2"
to your X config, as documented here:
http://linuxbios.org/index.php/GIGABYTE_GA-M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial
I have not had time yet to investigate the real cause of this problem.
Glxgears performs at 20% of the possible maximum, most probably because I'm not able to get a single interrupt from the card. But there is a picture and some acceleration, so you may call that succesful.
... we should fix all this.
Which card do you use? Do you see interrupts from it? (make sure glxinfo/driinfo says dri: yes and run e.g. glxgears)
It's an nvidia-based card, and I use the free (nv) driver, not the proprietary nvidia driver. Hence, no acceleration, and hence I have not experienced those problems. We should fix this though. What version of the board do you have?
Suggestions on getting the interrupts sorted out?
Thanks, Ward.