Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Mach Speed motherboard w/onboard video | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:41:45 +0000 |
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> 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.
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