Cutting to the chase in our conversation about Don Stanley's old motherboard and graphics card... > In summary; I believe my old video cards can be propped up to have > passable latency for now. I also believe I will have the same problem > again when I need to update ubuntu and/or EMC2. > > To avid this prolonged agony I would like to install simple Video cards > that do the job for the foreseeable future With EMC2 and my processors. > Anyone who could make an informing suggestion for such a card; > my heartfelt > Thanks > Don.
Don: Were I in your situation with your goal of "the foreseeable future", I would go the whole hog and replace both motherboard and graphics card. The integrated motherboards we've been discussing recently, such as the Intel D510MO, cost less than $100 and just need a memory stick to get going. To be sure, they are dramatically smaller and will require some cleverness if you wish to recycle your existing case and probably will need an adapter harness to mate to an existing older power supply. If this is too drastic a step, then you should be able to pick up a new graphics card for $50 to $100 retail. For example, in my area, we have a local computer store that has quite a selection of older PCI and PCI-e graphics cards for ca $50 and up. I'd pick a cheap one in the ATI Radeon family to avoid potential nVidia driver issues (although these don't seem to be much trouble these days; see the posted latency test results) and ask for return privilege in case it didn't work out. I have to run. I'll answer your question about changing Linux boot parameters later if no one else beats me to it. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
