Re: [Syllable-developer] recommended graphics cards advice

[trott3r <tr...@tr...>]

On 7:02:22 pm 18/09/2006 Arno Klenke <arn...@ya...> wrote:
> trott3r schrieb:
> >  On 5:53:28 pm 18/09/2006 Arno Klenke <arn...@ya...> wrote:
> >
> >>  trott3r schrieb:
> >>
> >>>   Hello,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   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.

okay i will see if I can swap the hard drives over soon.

> >  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

None of the geforece cards that are better supported than the others?

How about what the driver coders use that are still in that table.

> *sis devices (there are not many non-onboard sis chipsets)
>
> The card should also have at least 16mb video memory.

Okay that should give me some idea of the age of the card that would be
preferable. Any upper limit?

thanks for your time

Martin N