Dual Graphic Cards Linux/AOS4.1 FE ??

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Dual Graphic Cards Linux/AOS4.1 FE ??

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Hello everybody,

I changed my Radeon 4650 into a HIS-Radeon-HD-7750 for a better warp3d and warp3d nova experience. Problem is my Linux Desktop gets really sluggish. The plan therefore ist to reintegrate my old Radeon 4650 as a second Graphik Card for Linux. In order to have MESA acceleration etc. As I am donnot know anything about Linux, here are my questions:

1) What do I have to change on the Amiga side?
2) What do I have to do on the Linux side?
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Re: Dual Graphic Cards Linux/AOS4.1 FE ??

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gerograph wrote:Hello everybody,

I changed my Radeon 4650 into a HIS-Radeon-HD-7750 for a better warp3d and warp3d nova experience. Problem is my Linux Desktop gets really sluggish. The plan therefore ist to reintegrate my old Radeon 4650 as a second Graphik Card for Linux. In order to have MESA acceleration etc. As I am donnot know anything about Linux, here are my questions:

1) What do I have to change on the Amiga side?
2) What do I have to do on the Linux side?
Hi Gerograph,

I am sorry, I don't have any experiences with two graphics cards in an AmigaOne X1000. AlfredOne has successfully installed two graphics cards in his AmigaOne X1000. His X1000 has a Radeon R9-280X 3GB and a Radeon HIS4670 1GB DDR3. The Radeon R9-280X 3GB has hardware 3D acceleration on OS4.1 and the Radeon HIS4670 1GB DDR3 has hardware 3D acceleration on Linux.

Link to the test thread: forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz

Please contact AlfredOne via pm directly.

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Christian
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Hi Gerograph,

Julian also use 2 graphics cards in his AmigaOne X5000. Please look in the following thread: Spectre660's Linux downloads for the X5000

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Re: Dual Graphic Cards Linux/AOS4.1 FE ??

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Hi all,

I have different question regarding two graphics cards in A1X1000.
I have HD 7970 card in slot 1: PCIe x16. Excellent for AOS, but terrible with linux (no hw accel).
I want to purchase second card HD6670 and want to connect it to slot 2: PCIe x8.

Linux: I know how to setup xorg.cof to use second card only. (The same problem I solved last week, with Powermac G5 Quad and X1900G5 + HD6570).
slot 1: ( PCIe x8 with second card config) HD 7970 used in OpenFirmware and early boot
slot 2: ( PCIe x8) HD6670 used after radeon modules loaded like the only card for linux

AmigaOS:
slot 1: ( PCIe x8 with second card config) HD 7970 used all the time
slot 2: ( PCIe x8) HD6670 is not used.

Is it possible to switch-off somehow the card in slot 2? It will be suitable to have slot 1:(PCIe x16) and slot 2:(PCIe x0) for AmigaOS.
I.e. to switch all lanes lanes in PCI-e mux to slot1 only?
Quick look to OpenFirmware manual gave me no clue...

Another possibility is to put HD6670 to PCI slot, but it is terrible slow (PCI 133MB/s, PCIex8 2GB/s, PCIex16 4GB/s).
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Re: Dual Graphic Cards Linux/AOS4.1 FE ??

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I still don't know how to switch all 16 PCIe lanes to first card. Maybe it is not possible.
But I test the speed of HD 7970 with PCIe x16 (one card) and x8 (two cards).
SDLBench gives slightly worse resuts, but game speed (Quake3, 1941, Tower57) is exact the same.
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sailorMH wrote: Sat May 30, 2020 8:38 pm Quake3, 1941, Tower57) is exact the same.
I have the same experiences.
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