[LinuxBIOS] GA M57SLI _really_ supported?

Torsten Duwe duwe at lst.de
Fri Oct 26 00:03:29 CEST 2007


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 ?

> 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. 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.

Which card do you use? Do you see interrupts from it? (make sure 
glxinfo/driinfo says dri: yes and run e.g. glxgears)

	Torsten




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