On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Andrew Walrond wrote:

> On Friday 10 Dec 2004 20:41, Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Is this one of those 'shared memory' video chipsets then?

yes

>  And is it like the
> old days on the Amiga where some of the system ram is dual ported so that
> video/cpu don't contend the bus for memory access,

no

>  or are you implying that
> they do contend, and that imposes a performance hit?

yes

> Or none of the above? :)

;)

> Andrew Walrond
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