Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Mach Speed motherboard w/onboard video | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:26:50 -0500 |
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On Friday 10 December 2004 15:41, Alan Cox wrote: >> I did place the order for the board, and a cheap Chaintech Gforce >> 5200 video card in case the onboard doesn't work out for this app. >> The existing card, a 4 meg rage based card, apparently is not >> well supported by xorg's code, if the blanker is allowed to kick >> in, the recovery when the mouse is moved or a key is hit, is to a >> totally trashed screen & one must find the pager and switch >> screens to effect a redraw. Minor detail, but a pita anyway. > >An external video card will give you materially better performance >anyway and if you are doing real time stuff help in a few other > ways. >
Thanks Alan, and I suspected as much.
I did order a chaintech knockoff of a gforce 5200 to go with it.
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