Jack writes: > not all machines have PCIe slots. My newest one has AGP; the rest have > only PCI. How hard would it be to offer the same frame buffer and > analog back end on more than one base board?
They make adapters, but unless your current board has some unusual feature you really need, you're probably better off getting a new mainboard, and finding some other use for the current one. :-( There might be a few OGD1 cards (PCI-X) still available. At this point PCIe has been out for several years, so I assume that the market for PCI or AGP video cards is very small. (Is anyone else wanting PCI or AGP? If so now is the time to speak up.) The bus interface is different, so it would be a significant change to the electronics. I have seen photos on the web of cards with one interface on one side, and a different interface on the other. I suggested that for OGD1 but there wasn't interest. Given our limited resources, I'm trying very hard to come up with a single board that can serve as many people's needs as possible, without raising the cost (in engineering time, economic cost, or risk that something will not work) too much. Perhaps someone will to volunteer to design a 2nd board with PCI or AGP, or to do the work looking into the possibility of having two interfaces on one board. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
