Re: PCIExpress and PCI video card together

[Sebastian Haase <haase@msg.ucsf.edu>]

Gabor,
The missing part was that the kernel option (or parameter)
pci=nommconf
needed to be added. (Maybe this is not needed in 2.6.16 anymore (but it 
probably is)...)
Then it showed up in lspci.
And XF86Config-4 can handle it nicely.
I even found a web page where a guy describes how to run 3+ monitors all 
in one desktop (xinerama? no X screens) AND all OpenGL accelerated !!

He said something about NvAgp vs apgart - and some other tricks...

(Maybe this is nvidia specific - but mixing nvidia and ati should also work)

Thanks for the reply
Sebastian Haase



Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:39:40PM -0700, Sebastian Haase wrote:
>
> > Is the PCI-X slot supported in the "default" kernel ? I use a precompiled 
> > 2.6.15 kernel.  I checked the /boot/config-2.6.15... file but didn't 
> > recognise anything useful ...
>
> PCI-X should be supported (you can check it by removing the other VGA
> card and leaving only the PCI-X card in the machine). The biggest
> problem is having multiple VGA cards is not generally supported and only
> works with certain models of certain vendors, and sometimes requires
> manual tweakings. Google is your friend here, but do not expect much.
>
> Gabor