Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread Timothy A. Seufert
>So they started with the PCI spec, but they changed the logical meaning >of a lot of the bus signals, they added a lot of bus signals, they run it >about 8 times faster, they changed the voltage and a bunch of other stuff. >I say it is a different animal now. Sorry to post yet another

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo All! On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote: > AFAIK, AGP is just a preferent PCI slot in the PCI bus; that is for you can > only have ONE AGP port on a PCI bus. No. The AGP bus is never ON a PCI bus. To quote the AGP 2.0 spec section 1.2: "A.G.P. neither replaces nor diminishes the

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:56:26 Gary E. Miller wrote: > Yo James! > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, James Simmons wrote: > > > After much searching I couldn't find one. It was one of those mac rumors > > people spread around. I still like to get more than one AGP going. If I > > have multiple PCI bus in

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Gary E. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Yo James! > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, James Simmons wrote: > > > After much searching I couldn't find one. It was one of those mac rumors > > people spread around. I still like

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo James! On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, James Simmons wrote: > After much searching I couldn't find one. It was one of those mac rumors > people spread around. I still like to get more than one AGP going. If I > have multiple PCI bus in theory I should be able to have one AGP port on > each PCI bus.

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread James Simmons
> > ** Reply to message from James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 > > 18:34:51 -0700 (PDT) > > > Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. > > I've never heard this. Could you tell me exactly which model this is? > > I think he's confusing dualhead cards with dual agp slots.

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread James Simmons
** Reply to message from James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I've never heard this. Could you tell me exactly which model this is? I think he's confusing dualhead cards with dual agp slots. I dont

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo James! On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, James Simmons wrote: After much searching I couldn't find one. It was one of those mac rumors people spread around. I still like to get more than one AGP going. If I have multiple PCI bus in theory I should be able to have one AGP port on each PCI bus. Right?

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:"Gary E. Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel Yo James! On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, James Simmons wrote: After much searching I couldn't find one. It was one of those mac rumors people spread around. I still like to get more

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:56:26 Gary E. Miller wrote: Yo James! On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, James Simmons wrote: After much searching I couldn't find one. It was one of those mac rumors people spread around. I still like to get more than one AGP going. If I have multiple PCI bus in theory I

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo All! On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote: AFAIK, AGP is just a preferent PCI slot in the PCI bus; that is for you can only have ONE AGP port on a PCI bus. No. The AGP bus is never ON a PCI bus. To quote the AGP 2.0 spec section 1.2: "A.G.P. neither replaces nor diminishes the

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-20 Thread Timothy A. Seufert
So they started with the PCI spec, but they changed the logical meaning of a lot of the bus signals, they added a lot of bus signals, they run it about 8 times faster, they changed the voltage and a bunch of other stuff. I say it is a different animal now. Sorry to post yet another correction,

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 > 18:34:51 -0700 (PDT) > > Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. > I've never heard this. Could you tell me exactly which model this is? I think he's confusing dualhead

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master) > > you can review it at: > > http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm > Technically, AGP is a "port", not a

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I just was looking for a intel >box like this. Since AGP is a port on the PCI bus it is possible to have >more than one AGP port on a/each PCI bus but this requires the PCI chipset >to support this. Well, I don't know of such a Mac. To my

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:34:51 -0700 (PDT) > Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I've never heard this. Could you tell me exactly which model this is? -- Timur Tabi - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interactive Silicon -

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread James Simmons
> There is no reason there cannot be multiple AGP buses. After all there are > motherboards with 2,3,4 (or more!) PCI buses. Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I just was looking for a intel box like this. Since AGP is a port on the PCI bus it is possible to have more than one AGP port

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master) > you can review it at: > http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm There is no reason there cannot be multiple AGP buses. After all there are motherboards with 2,3,4 (or more!) PCI

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Joel Jaeggli
the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master) you can review it at: http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm joelja On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, James Simmons wrote: > > Hi! > > I looking for a motherboard that supports more than one AGP slot. Does > anyone know any like

Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread James Simmons
Hi! I looking for a motherboard that supports more than one AGP slot. Does anyone know any like this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread James Simmons
Hi! I looking for a motherboard that supports more than one AGP slot. Does anyone know any like this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Joel Jaeggli
the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master) you can review it at: http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm joelja On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, James Simmons wrote: Hi! I looking for a motherboard that supports more than one AGP slot. Does anyone know any like this?

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Joel Jaeggli wrote: the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master) you can review it at: http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm There is no reason there cannot be multiple AGP buses. After all there are motherboards with 2,3,4 (or more!) PCI buses.

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread James Simmons
There is no reason there cannot be multiple AGP buses. After all there are motherboards with 2,3,4 (or more!) PCI buses. Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I just was looking for a intel box like this. Since AGP is a port on the PCI bus it is possible to have more than one AGP port

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I've never heard this. Could you tell me exactly which model this is? -- Timur Tabi - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interactive Silicon -

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I just was looking for a intel box like this. Since AGP is a port on the PCI bus it is possible to have more than one AGP port on a/each PCI bus but this requires the PCI chipset to support this. Well, I don't know of such a Mac. To my knowledge, the

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Joel Jaeggli [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master) you can review it at: http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm Technically, AGP is a "port", not a "bus", for

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Timur Tabi wrote: ** Reply to message from James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I've never heard this. Could you tell me exactly which model this is? I think he's confusing dualhead cards