Ageia Phyxs PCI card or NVIDIA SLI

[aperrigo]

I just wanted to say I am a student programmer using VB , C+ , blah blah blah , but that's all within a windows enviroment. Now experiencing Ultimate Edition 1.6 through VirtualBox I am planning on installing it on one of my SATA drives that is only used for Linux. I have Fedora 8 on that drive now. My question is: I haven't seen any drivers or support for Phyxs cards or SLI setup on Linux. Is there a way to enable SLI under LInux and/or helpful support on enabling my Phyxs card.?

P.S. Ultimate Edition is the bomb ...I am really looking forward to playing with the OS some more.

[DaddyX3]

Hello Aperrigo - I do believe that it is entirely possible to run SLI setup. TheeMahn has two 7600 's installed on his system. He says, " Nvidia 7600 GT 256MB X 2 (SLI AA mode)" Whatever that means. I couldn't tell you about the difficulty or not, I'm running a single 6800GS card in one of my box's and a 7050PV chipset with built in graphics on another.If you need instruction, maybe someone will chime in here.

[aperrigo]

Thanks I will keep checking up from time to time.

[LeadFingers]

Sounds like a good "how To" subject

[aperrigo]

ATI and NVIDIA do support SLI...i just haven't figured out how to properly configure my X server and the Driver Kernels....I am using 169.07 for the Nvidia Drivers at the moment. oh well.

[LeadFingers]

Came across 2 Nvidia Linux SLI how-to's today.

Phoronix: (pretty generic)
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... =326&num=5

Nvidia:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux ... dix-w.html

Hope ya get your SLI going

[TheeMahn]

If your bios is configured properly to use sli, one command is all you need the howto's above are overkill in my opinion, unless it does not work in windows as well for example. The command to issue:

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sudo nvidia-xconfig --sli=aa

the aa can be replaced with auto or on I like high definition graphics and why I use aa (anti-aliasing mode).

Outputs:

theemahn@SledgeHammer:~$ sudo nvidia-xconfig --sli=aa

Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

theemahn@SledgeHammer:~$

CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE login and enjoy.

[aperrigo]

Much Appreciated...I am still looking for some source code from Ageia on a Phyxs PCI card Driver or some alternative...although if I had enough room in my steel case . I would squeeze a PCI-E x 1 Ageia card instead of using the already dated, in my opinion, PCI 2.0.

But thank you for the alternate research sites.