Oh, this applies only to integrated motherboards? I got some kind of extra video card that's not integrated, as the computer shop had to replace my under warantee motherboard, because it's built-in sound had obtained an overtone after awhile, and nothing would fix it. Now I have an sblive that rocks compared to that, maybe 4 or 8 bit win sound system thing on the board before. At 06:45 PM 10/4/00 +1100, you wrote: >The other problem with the boards with the onboard SIS 8236 and similar cards; >if you leave the onboard video enabled you loose 20% of your memory bandwidth >and the video card eats system ram to use for video ram. Nice in theory but evil >in practice. You also need extremely new X servers to run the shared ram versions >of the SIS, they're nothing flash. Far better onboard video can be had with the >ati Ragepro128 and friends. > >Regards, Kerry. >On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:35:38PM -0500, Buddy Brannan wrote: >> Couple of thing kinda things: >> >> 1. I have a Smart And Friendly 4X4X24X CD-RW (SCSI), which works well with >> cdrdao and with cdrecord and the generic SCSI CD-R drivers. >> >> 2. Don't get a Sis (Sys? No, I'm fairly sure it's SiS) chipset video card. >> I got one (an AGP one), because I didn't need any great shakes for video, >> and when I tried to install any linux or run stuff, the system seemed to >> lock up randomly. ... Gene and Kirk may remember my Debian trials in May. >> ... Anyway, go for a Matrox card--I've seen 8MB video cards for fairly >> inexpensive prices on the net. or ati. Or s3. ... But stay far away from >> SiS. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >-- >-- >Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org >Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au >ICQ UIN: 62823451 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
