Re: [Syllable-developer] recommended graphics cards advice

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

On 12:28:39 pm 19/09/2006 "Vandervliet, Kristian" <Kristian.Vandervliet@a=
ndrew.com> wrote:
> 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
> >  with only 8meg of memory while the other responder said 16
> >  meg preferable.
>
> The G200 a specialist board?  Not really, it's just an old Matrox
> consumer board.=20

seemed to be as it has multiple heads at least the ones on ebay do and th=
ey
cost alot for a pci card =C2=A340! upwards

> There are loads of them lying around these days.

if anyone does have them stick them on ebay fetch a bit in the or some
reason.

> 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)

okay good ; on second look on ebay its 32meg spit into 4 heads which is
8meg per display.


> >  Just noticed the matrox is a pci card which could mean i
> >  could use my geforce 6600 gt AGP and the matrox PCI at the
> >  same time. Anyone else known to have had success with this
> >  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.=20

which i can enable in bios (pci)

> 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.

Is there not a way a script could be written to change which interface is
used for video?

Martin N