[SGVLUG] linux & pci-E (pci-express).

Michael Proctor-Smith mproctor13 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 13:46:59 PDT 2005


> On 10/20/05, John Riehl <jcriehl at mail.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone have any PCI-E (pci-express) video boards?  Any issues or
> > recommendations?  Do you see a benefit?
> >
> > jr
> > john riehl

As far as I know PCI-E appears to software as a higher bandwith pci
bus. Much like the pci-to-agp conversion linux treats agp like a
single device pci bus hence cat /proc/pci turns up a bus 1, device 0,
function 0 is your agp card.


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