Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 23:47 -1000, david wrote:
So, depending on the laptop that "schrieb david" owns,
That's me. My laptop is too low-budget to have expandable video
capabilities.
The most recent Dell I saw with expandable graphics (note, they didn't advertise that you could expand them) was under $1000 new.
Mine's a Toshiba Satellite model bought back near the end of 2004 for $600.
I'm not planning to do any such heavy-duty work on the laptop. By the
time I have fluidsynth with a sound font loaded, jack, and Rosegarden
going, doing anything else with the system while playing a composition
is sufficient to interrupt the audio momentarily - particularly if I'm
playing from the Score editor. I blame it on the Intel graphics
hardware. Or maybe a 1.5GHz Celeron just hasn't enough oomph to do it
with Intel graphics around. And I'm not even using any kind of effects
or filtering.
You still haven't said what graphics you actually have.
855GM according to KInfoCenter's PCI report.
There is a wide
range of Intel graphics out there from the i810 (I'm ignoring the older
stuff that could be gotten as a separate AGP card) to the current 965.
I doubt that you have a 800 series chip in a Celeron with that clock,
but I doubt that you have a 965 either. But as for as I know, that
still leaves the 855G, 915GM, 945GM, and GMA 950 as options. I can't
believe that a 945 or better is causing you your trouble, and I don't
know about the 855 or 915.
OTOH, I wouldn't be happy with a celeron, although I've seen other
people refer to using them happily.
I'm planning to move the music work to either my Sempron 3000 box
(currently being our network server) or the "newest" addition to the
network, a box with a 1.8GHz Athlon (the old style "significant
contributor to global warming" processor). The old server box has an
NVidia GeForce2 MX display adapter, and 1GB of RAM. The Athlon box will
end up with another NVidia GeForce2 MX adapter and have 1GB RAM. They'll
both have much better audio cards than the laptop's Intel HDA audio!
Moving to a desktop system may be a good idea. I would prefer to
"upgrade" which ever system I used with an ATI Radeon, but maybe you are
happy with the Nv driver.
So far.
I just bought a stack of Radeon 7200s for $5
apiece just for putting into older Linux PCs with Geforce 2MX cards.
I got these free. I don't do games on any of my computers, so more
powerful display cards don't really do anything for me.
Also, to quote from another email you sent:
Sorry, no - I dashed that off fast, neglecting to mention that I've
never encountered Intel graphics on any separate card - I've seen them
on many many laptops and a growing number of desktop motherboards (I
have two such mobos here). In all cases, the Intel graphics steals
memory from the system.
In the Dell Inspiron P-M that I was recently seeing inside (the above
one that was under $1000 when new 1.5-2 years ago), the intel graphics
were on the motherboard and were overridden by a ATI card when present.
So, not since the original i710 have I seen Intel graphics that wasn't
on the motherboard. It doesn't always steal RAM though. Or maybe it is
and it does it more subtly than the ProSavage did. In my P3 with i810
graphics, /proc/meminfo says it has 384M of RAM, just like I installed,
while Athlon with the Savage onboard graphics said that it had 608megs
installed when it was really 640megs. When I turned off the built in
graphics on the motherboard and put in a Radeon 7200 AGP
card, /proc/meminfo now reads 640 megs.
My laptop has 768meg in it; /proc/meminfo reports MemTotal 742976kB.
Looking in kern.log, the kernel reports 32636 stolen memory. Sorry, was
wrong about the amount being stolen on the laptop.
--
David
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