Re: [Syllable-developer] recommended graphics cards advice

[Vandervliet, K. <Kri...@an...>]

trott3r wrote:
> only the matrox g200 is in the table for amithlon supported cards.
> Searching on ebay uk shows the g200 is a specialist board=20
> with only 8meg of memory while the other responder said 16=20
> meg preferable.

The G200 a specialist board?  Not really, it's just an old Matrox
consumer board.  There are loads of them lying around these days.
The G400 will also work just as well on Syllable, and you can
certainly get those with more than 8MB on them (I have a G400 with
32MB, for example)
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>> Out of all
>> of those, the i945 (With the CVS/0.6.2 driver) & Savage IX are the=20
>> best supported.  The GeForce2 MX was also near-perfect.  The Radeon=20
>> 7000 and i845 and good, but the Radeon 7000 suffers from "shimer";=20
>> possibly poor memory-timing in the Radeon driver.  Support for the=20
>> G200 is basic, but it does work and it is accelerated, but=20
>> it is the only card on the list that does not support video overlays.
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> Any newer cards that are well supported?
>
> Thanks for geforce 2mx suggestion that has some potential=20
> apart from its age.

As far as I know, all of the newer Radeon cards will also work, and
all GeForce[FX] cards should work, so you can just pick one that works
with your other OS and it should be fine.

Your 6600GT should work; as Arno said, we'd really appreciate a copy
of your kernel log (/var/log/kernel) so we can see what the problem
is and hopefully fix it.
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> Just noticed the matrox is a pci card which could mean i=20
> could use my geforce 6600 gt AGP and the matrox PCI at the=20
> same time. Anyone else known to have had success with this=20
> sor of setup?

It's not a normal configuration.  Personally I'd expect the PCI card
to be disabled by the BIOS, in favour of the AGP card.  Because of
the way drivers are loaded by Syllable, the GeForceFX would be used
(Probably) but I have no idea how other OSes may handle that.

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