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. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
