From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261846AbULJW3w (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:29:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261862AbULJW2M (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:28:12 -0500 Received: from out009pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.131]:61081 "EHLO out009.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261846AbULJW0w (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:26:52 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mach Speed motherboard w/onboard video Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:26:50 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200412081140.33199.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200412082032.22619.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <1102711303.3271.64.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1102711303.3271.64.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412101726.50273.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out009.verizon.net from [151.205.42.94] at Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:26:51 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.30% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.