Card recommendations

Wil Reichert wil.reichert at gmail.com
Sat Sep 9 17:50:32 PDT 2006


On 9/9/06, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 15:09 -0400, Andrew Barr wrote:
>
> > For what it's worth, the new Intel i965 chipset has me very impressed.
> > According to the documentation for my motherboard, it supports a kind
> > of add-on card that goes in the AGP or PCI-E x16 slot lets you add
> > display ports (TV-out, DVI) to the integrated graphics controller.
>
> All Intel embedded graphics chips support this kind of card; older AGP
> cards use 'DVO' protocol to support ADD cards, new PCI-E cards use
> 'SDVO' protocol to support ADD2 cards. The cards are reasonably cheap
> too.
>
> For the 965, you can buy BTX-format motherboards with on-board DVI and
> VGA connectors.
>
> --
> keith.packard at intel.com
>
>
>

Ahh, thank you very much for that bit of information.  Unfortunate
that Intel chose not to use DVI connectors on their ATX boards.  Are
there any issues using these cards on a G965 board with the current
Xorg drivers?

Wil



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