[linux-elitists] Okay... so now how do I get...

[Phil Mayers]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:04:17PM +0000, Chris Ball wrote:
>
>I hear that Intel is making a daughterboard that adds dual-link DVI via
>a PCIe crossover to its standard integrated graphics (950?) stuff.  I'll
>happily get in line to buy one.

They do, but come on - who wants to burn a PCIe slot on a glorified 
media converter? Most desktops only have one PCIe - certainly my 
super-spanky new dual core i965 does.

[Of course in my case it's irrelevant since the frakking thing doesn't 
WORK under linux of any stripe - oh, except Sarge with the generic 386 
kernel. Apparently the mounting of /sys triggers some kind of 2-order of 
magnitude drop in CPU performance (as a colleague pointed out, like 
someone had hit the turbo button to "off").

Yes, I've tried all the various acpi, apic, pci= and *smp* kernel 
options. Bit depressing to be honest]

Down-converting to VGA outside the box not only saves a slot, it means 
people don't have to open the machine up to change this around, and 
these days opening the machine is about as retro as changing your BIOS 
settings (both things I've been doing a lot of to this HP DC7700 - just 
say NO kids!)