On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, John Haggerty wrote:

> We are running a substantial cluster of SL3.0.5 machines as part of a data 
> acquisition system, and we thought it would be nice to upgrade the 
> interactive machines we use to control it all, so we bought a couple of nice 
> dual Opteron machines (I think they sport the Navion-T PCI express 
> motherboard) and a PNY Verto GeForce 7900 GT PCIe x16 graphics adapter for 
> supporting two monitors.  We'd really like the same software environment as 
> the rest of the cluster, but there are some early indications that this 
> configuration is a little too far out for 3.0.5.
>
> Anyone with experience or advice or pointers about where to look for help?
>
>

I'd like to hear some discussion on this as well.  The one thing I'd worry 
about is the graphics card.  The general impression I get from my readings 
is that the vendor's driver is not as good as the nv driver that is 
delivered with a stock SL distro.  The NV driver explicitly lists support 
up to the 6600.  The newer 7x00 are not listed.  I've ordered a 7300 and 
gambling that the nv driver will support the card.