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SubjectRe: Mach Speed motherboard w/onboard video
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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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