[MPlayer-users] Re: Radeon frambuffer use if Radeon is not primary display?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> >> Do you mean PCI version of the card (I've never heard about PCI
> >> radeon)
> 
> > I was just assuming.  I have not actually looked yet.  No PCI would
> > suck.  Does video streaming really need the bandwidth of the AGP but
> > even if using 720x??? resolutions?
> 
> No.
> 
> All this AGP-"Mess" was only created to be able to have fast access to
> texture-images located in the main memory of the PC. So, again, the
> gaming fraction were the peolpe screaming for more bandwidth, not the
> normal Users.
Btw later they found that AGP is slow too, and instead of placing textures
in system ram (and access via AGP) they started to increase amount of memory
on the card -> 64/128mb radeons/geforces.

> The bandwidth of the PCI-Bus is enough so 1600x1200 with 24bit can be
> transported into the video card (and a lot more is possible), so there
> should be no problems with 720x568 at whatever color depth.
but todays cards like matrox g series and radeons are all AGP chips. the PCI
versions of these cards (if exists) have PCI-to-AGP bridge on teh card and
the AGP chip... and they aren't supported under linux afaik.

> I'm sorry a pentium won't do, you need an SGI to connect with us.
no problem :)
is an origin 200 enough?


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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