070821 James wrote: > Philip Webb <purslow <at> sympatico.ca> writes: >> (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as >> "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 >> integrated High-definition video processing >> with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp <at> 75 Hz ; >> maximum shared memory 256 MB ; supports OpenGL 1.5, Pixel Shader 2.0 ". >> It appears that with this mobo I don't need a separate graphics card >> unless I want very high-performance gaming or similar; >> also, it uses open-source drivers (can anyone confirm?). > I'm not certain about your video assumptions. > I've just installed Gentoo on a sony viao (see recent threads) > and never got the Intel 810 driver working. After extensive googling, > the version of the chips does not work with the 810 Intel drivers. > Lots of people blame Sony, but I'm sure Intel provided a chip > that is unusuable with the 810 driver: I believe it's a 965GM .
Thanks a lot for the comment: I was wondering whether no-one was interested or whether my planned set-up was so good no-one bothered to say so (smile). I did look at the beginning of a thread this week re CPU/cooling/audio, but it didn't seem relevant to my very ordinary desktop needs: the machine wb overkill, but needs to last 4 years like the present one. Your machine is a laptop (if I googled correctly) & I'm not sure how an Intel 810 relates to the Intel 3100 listed above. > You might want to find a store which has a system with this mobo > and see in anybody's liveCD (Knoppix, Gentoo, etc) boots up > with a graphics driver other than vesa. That's easier said than done (smile). Further comments on this or other aspects are most welcome. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
