[AG-TECH] Adjustments to AGN Specs
Robert Olson
olson at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Jan 10 08:16:52 CST 2001
At 06:55 AM 1/10/2001 -0800, Don Morton wrote:
>1) Due to unexpected configuration of Display machine motherboard,
> I'm running 3 projectors plus monitor off of the G200 Quad
> card. As it turns out, the G200 won't cooperate with any
> other video adaptor in the machine unless its a Matrox
> (and the restriction is probably more specific than just that).
Is this the case under win2k still? The OS should allow this; does the
machine boot up? I've run a mix of matrox and other cards without problem
in the past. Is this the machine with the ATI AGP adapter onboard?
> So, at this point everything runs off of the G200 Quad. Naturally,
> it's working in the sense that I can display on all three
> projectors plus monitor. However, I have concerns that it won't
> handle the load of a real AGN session. Does anybody have
> experience with this? I don't know if I want to leave things
> the way they are, or if it would be prudent to get a new
> motherboard with AGP slot, or some other solution. Money
> doesn't flow freely here, but an AGN that can't process all
> these graphics isn't desirable, of course :)
Have you been able to peer in at any of the sessions?
>2) On the video capture machine, there are only two free PCI slots
> for the WinTV cards. One slot is taken up by the NIC, yet
> there is also an onboard 10/100 port. I understand that the
> Intel PCI Pro/100+ NIC that's in there does some processing
> of a level or two of the TCP/IP stack, so I'm wondering if
> pulling that out and using the onboard 10/100 would critically
> cut the network capabilities of that machine. Again, does anybody
> have experience enough to provide advice?
THey shipped it with a NIC even tho there's an onboard port? I don't see
any reason to not use the onboard ethernet.
>We're still several weeks away from even getting our high-speed network
>connected in to the AGN, so I can't test this myself. Which reminds
>me, U. Montana has an opening for a Networking position (I don't know
>exactly at what level) - if anybody's interested, I can find more
>info for you. In general, low monetary rewards, high peace-of-mind
>rewards :)
:-). Betcha it doesn't cost as much to live out there as it does here...
--bob
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