Linux console / Ruby patch on dual PCI Express

[Magnus L. <lin...@ma...>]

This is my first post to this list, I hope everyting works. :) 

I am using kernel 2.6.* with ruby on my home computer since december last 
year. I have two nvidia graphicscard - TNT2 Ultra PCI and Geforce4 AGP. 

Everything works as it should and without problems, now I have a few 
questions: 

1) When will this patch go into the main linux tree? What is left to do before 
it can merge, or is that "out of the question" / not gonna happen in the 
forseable future? 

2) Several vendors (via, nvidia, etc) will soon start selling mobo-chipsets 
capable of dual PCI-express or AGP + PCI-express slots. 

First (a); will PCI-express cards work "just like" AGP cards in general in 
linux. 

Second (b); will PCI-express motherboards/graphicscards work "out of the box" 
with linux? 

Third (c); Does Linux support multiple AGP ports today, which the AGP-standard 
does. 

If it does, will it be possible to use one of these dual PCI-express boards 
with the ruby patch to make a system with two X-consoles where each has one 
PCI-express graphics card?

A system like that would be very intresting, since I am today having problems 
with openGL and other accelerated graphics on the PCI nvidia card. (which I 
assume is due to the poor performance of the PCI bus, I only get ca 700 fps 
in glxgears on the PCI card, and xv-accelerated video has lower fps (some 
jerkiness) than xv on the AGP graphicscard). 

So, in summare, my second question is; Does anyone know if the future dual 
PCI-express (or PCI-express + AGP port) motherboards (such as the VIA 
K8T890Pro or nvidia Nforce 4 SLI) will work with linux and the ruby patch in 
particular to set up a multi-console system using fast gfx cards? 

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