Re: [Syllable-developer] recommended graphics cards advice

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On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:02:22 +0200, Arno Klenke <arn...@ya...> wrote:
> trott3r schrieb:
>> On 5:53:28 pm 18/09/2006 Arno Klenke <arn...@ya...> wrote:
>>> trott3r schrieb:
>>>> On the syllable hardware compatibility page for video cards there
>>>> are alot of cards that are supported but with little other comment
>>>> on their performance. My Geforce 6600 gt doesnt allow me to change
>>>> the refresh rate and is thus not  tolerable at the default rate on
>>>>       
>>> a crt monitor. The geforce 6600 should work fine. Please post your
>>> kernel log (/var/log/kernel) so we can see what is going wrong.
>>
>> Its a 6600 gt just in case the gt makes a difference.
>>   
> The kernel log will be very useful for us because other people with the 
> same card might have the same problem.
> 
>> However i have decided to downgrade the gfx card for the other system as
>> well as syllable since i dont do much gaming and also not bothering
>> upgrading xp to vista so I would still like suggestions please.
>>   
> The best supported devices in syllable are:
> 
> *Intel onboard chipsets starting from the i830
> *Nvidia devices starting from the first geforce
> *sis devices (there are not many non-onboard sis chipsets)

S3 Savage cards are also well supported.

I currently use machines with the following cards:

Intel i845
Intel i945
Matrox G200
Radeon 7000
S3 Savage IX

and I used a GeForce2 MX in a machine for quite some time.  Out of all
of those, the i945 (With the CVS/0.6.2 driver) & Savage IX are the best
supported.  The GeForce2 MX was also near-perfect.  The Radeon 7000
and i845 and good, but the Radeon 7000 suffers from "shimer"; possibly
poor memory-timing in the Radeon driver.  Support for the G200 is
basic, but it does work and it is accelerated, but it is the only card on
the list that does not support video overlays.

However, the log from your 6000 GT would be useful, as Arno said.

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