We are looking pretty hard at the little shuttle cube computers for an upgraded platform for our service. There are several choices of chipsets and I was wondering what might be better supported in X for playing flash movies in a browser, mpeg videos of various formats to Composite /svhs out and DVI out ( not necessarily at the same time). Shuttle barebones systems provides Mobos with what looks like three basic video chipsets in our price range: as an fyi, Shuttle provides cards that plug into the agp port that provide the composite and svhs tv out as well as DVI and I am leaning toward Athlon 2000 based systems with 256MB Ram. Primary chipsets seem to be : Shuttle SK41G - VIA KM266/8235 based with Via Savage 8 video (At least I think Via does the video too) Shuttle SS40G -SIS 740 / 961 based vie SIS 315 4-64MB VGA Shuttle SN41G@B nVidia nForce2 / MCP-T based with Geforce4 MX 128 MB VGA ( I hate to use this since IIUC the drivers are closed sorce and that pisses me off) I know the North and south bridge combinations provide different FSB and memory speeds but I am really trying to get a feel for the video support in either redhat 9 RHPW or possibly fedora, Failing direct sponging off redhat is there good support elsewhere that can be easily added? Also one last question, given that either DVI or TV out will be required, am I better off simply saving the $40 US that the addon card costs and buying an ATi or other card that does not use system memory? Remember I am not gaming here just wanting to play some full screen movies at 1024 X 768. Any tips or info appreciated. I have read so many documents about so many chipsets I am going to be dreaming about bridges built of silicon over rivers of alpha numeric characters for a week. These look like really cool boxes and the small form factor and advanced cooling are expactly what we are looking for if I can get it to work. I just can't afford to go buy one of each and see what works and what does not. _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
