Re: Linux console / Ruby patch on dual PCI Express

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

--- Magnus Lundstedt
<lin...@ma...> wrote:

> 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). 
> 

We have the same system in reverse: I have TNT2-AGP
and MX-440-PCI. On the latter I get 1077 fps and on
the former 474 fps.

But my problem, I think is the CPU processor: 850MHz
just is not enough to drive the 2 X servers. It might
also be 2.6.9. But Aivils would know.

H.







		
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