Joe Shuttleworth wrote: > On September 5, 2009 12:50:33 pm Hendrik Schaink wrote: >> I have come across video trouble with the Vanta chip before. If you >> could get hold of a spare video card, I would try that without delay. >> The NVidia Vanta video chip is rather old and no longer well supported. >> >> HTH, Hendrik > > Could you suggest a video card. I'm looking for something that is quiet, > preferably. Also I plan to get an LCD monitor. What would I need to > consider for that?
Enough horsepower to drive the panels native resolution. Fortunately I am not aware of any GPU that you can buy today that this would be a problem. The only other real concern would be driver support under Linux. In the order that I would choose: 1) ATI (recent models only, they should have HD in the model name, or a number like 38xx, 47xx, 48xx, 49xx). 2) Intel 3) nVidia > I use the computer for work applications, audio, and I watch video, > but don't play games, so I don't think 3D would be a big > concern. > > Also if an onboard video is good, I might look at getting a barebones > computer to use, that was inexpensive. > I am more than happy with the Intel integrated graphics controllers for day to day performance. One of my machines here is a dual core Atom machine. It is low power but with 2GiB of RAM has more than enough horsepower to watch videos. > Could these problems be caused by things like a faulty mouse or > keyboard? > I suppose so. It should be easy enough to test.
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