Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 19:17 -1000, david wrote:
>
>> 855GM according to KInfoCenter's PCI report.
>
> Ugh. No wonder it is slowing things down.
Yup, the joys of life as a bottom-feeder! ;-)
> These days if someone says something nice about Intel graphics, they are
> almost certainly talking about a 945 or better.
Probably so. I'm using the Intel driver (courtesy of Xorg), and X still
reports warnings as it tries to use various features of newer Intel
graphics chips with the old hardware.
>>> I just bought a stack of Radeon 7200s for $5
>>> apiece just for putting into older Linux PCs with Geforce 2MX cards.
>> I got these free. I don't do games on any of my computers, so more
>> powerful display cards don't really do anything for me.
>
> One doesn't have to play games to desire a modest OpenGL card. One
> could gain benefit from such a card by seeing the drawing of various
> applications be accelerated if they happen to be built on libraries that
> support OpenGL. When such things line up in your favor, you get more
> CPU power available for audio because the graphics card is doing the
> display drawing for you.
>
> In one application I'm working on, switching the graphics process to use
> OpenGL just to draw text and simple line graphs to the display cut the
> CPU usage of that process by 75%.
That's fine. I can't imagine how OpenGL would speed up scrolling through
Rosegarden's Score window as a composition plays, but maybe it would.
I'll see if it makes a difference on the desktop machines. Their cards
support OpenGL.
> So, maybe a Radeon card would play games better. I don't know. It is
> rather offensive that you consider this only of worth to gamers.
Sorry, but I don't consider that offensive at all. I've used video cards
for over 20 years, and some of my favorites were the ones designed to
run OpenGL. I used to have a little old slow Elsa GLoria Synergy
graphics card, with OpenGL executing natively on the card, that could
run rings around the fancy expensive cards (at the time) when it came to
3D games. I also used to work for a company that sold the original AT&T
Targa video boards - ISA cards that plugged into 6MHz IBM AT computers
and could capture and manipulate 30fps TV and movie video in real time.
I don't put down gamers - realtime games involving realistic graphics
and sophisticated game AI takes a lot of horsepower!
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Hi.
I've read a lot of archived posts about issues with this card, but
none of them have solved what seems to be a fairly basic problem.
I'm using Ubuntu Feisty 7.04, ALSA 1.0.14 and HDSPMixer 1.6. The HDSP
9632 has firmware 1.53. Everything seems fine -- the card is
recognised, and it even makes sound using aplay. This leads me to
think that there's no problem with the driver or firmware. I cannot,
however, get the card to make sound using alsaplayer (there are no
errors, just no sound) or SuperCollider (the jack connections are
reported as fine, but again no sound).
I've been beating my head against this for days, but have not had any
luck. Any help/suggestions would be most welcome.
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Am Montag, 13. August 2007 schrieb Joshua D. Boyd:
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:01 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > > Yes, please, my laptop has onboard Intel video and it steals 64MB of
> > > system memory that I'd rather be using for other things.
> > Your laptop can be expanded with a pci-/agp-card?
> > I have the very strong feeling that you are fixed on your graphics device
> > as I have never seen a laptop that could make use of an extra video card.
> > Except with a docking station that has a pci-slot...
> I've seen several laptops where the video card is a removable piece that
> can potentially be upgraded. However, as there also seems to be no
> standard for laptop video cards, that would mean that upgrades would be
> limited to getting compatible cards from the same company.
>
> Most notably Dell is like this. I've seen many reports of uses of the
> Inspiron 8x00 series of laptops upgrading their video cards, which I
> believe went from a fairly lowly Rage to a modest Radeon or Geforce 4MX.
> I also saw a newer Dell laptop (forget the model number, but it was a
> centrino with a pentium-m) that had Intel graphics on the motherboard
> but could take (and this one had) a seperate card that had (in this
> case) a Radeon X300 on it.
>
> So, depending on the laptop that "schrieb david" owns, he very well may
> be able to somehow upgrade it's graphics, albeit not with a PCI/AGP
> card. If it was a common brand it may be worth looking for doner
> laptops to scavange for video upgrades.
Hehe, the guys name is only "david". The "schrieb" means "wrote" and as I am
note "Arnold Krille wrote", he is not "david schrieb" but "david". :-)
> > You should get more RAM for your laptop so the 64MB of the graphics
> > don't make a high percentage.
> That would certainly be worth doing.
Even more so if you plan on extensive recording or playing with big soundfonts
(like the rather good steinway sf2). For these reasons I got my wife to
pre-approve new mem for my main desktop (still running on 512MB).
Arnold
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Hi!
Quite a while ago I condcuted a survey here, regarding exporting audio
from Ardour or other tools. So it's only fair to also present results
here. Not like I would crave for attention or anything ;)
Feedback on any level very welcome.
This could be of interest to other projects, too.
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Hi
Is there any app that could import (convert) those kind of files to open them
from Rosegarden, Canorus, Noteedit, Denemo, etc.?
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Geoff Beasley:
>
>
> a relatively recent (6000 series or better) nvidia based chipset with the
> nvidia drivers will be the best inho.
>
I wouldn't do that. The nvidia drivers have a history of causing xruns.
Not that its that bad though. I have always used the nvidia drivers, and
they work just fine as long as you don't go below 1024 frames.
(the nv drivers, otoh, should be fine.)
On 8/13/07, Kjetil S. Matheussen <k.s.matheussen(a)notam02.no> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Loki Davison wrote:
>
> > On 8/13/07, Kjetil S. Matheussen <k.s.matheussen(a)notam02.no> wrote:
> >>
> >> Geoff Beasley:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> a relatively recent (6000 series or better) nvidia based chipset with
> the
> >>> nvidia drivers will be the best inho.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I wouldn't do that. The nvidia drivers have a history of causing xruns.
> >> Not that its that bad though. I have always used the nvidia drivers, and
> >> they work just fine as long as you don't go below 1024 frames.
> >>
> >> (the nv drivers, otoh, should be fine.)
> >
> >
> > mmm. Not in my experience. Had an ati card that was trouble with
> > opensource or closed driver and i've never had xrun probs with my
> > nvidia card.
> >
>
> Can you run with 64 frames for hours without getting xruns?
Sounds a bit testy how you've put that. Never tried 64. 128 runs
perfectly without xruns. Not sure how good my ears are for picking up
smaller buffer sizes. However you did say 1024, which is a lot larger.
Loki
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Am Montag, 13. August 2007 schrieb Thomas Ilnseher:
> Am Montag, den 13.08.2007, 15:01 +0200 schrieb Arnold Krille:
> > I have the very strong feeling that you are fixed on your graphics
> > device as I
> > have never seen a laptop that could make use of an extra video card.
> > Except
> > with a docking station that has a pci-slot...
> Newer PCIe based Notebooks use a special video-card standard called MXM.
> if you have such a notebook, it should _IN THEORY_ be possible to
> exchange the video card. BUT:
>
> a) there exist at least 4 different sub-formfactors of the MXM spec.
> b) The cooling solution must be "good enough" for the desired video
> card. This applies to the power subsystem as well.
> c) you might run into troubles with the bios ...
> d) replacing the card may be difficult and invalidate warranty
> e) there might be notebooks with discrete PCIe graphics that is not obey
> the MXM standard
> f) it is very likely that notbooks with integrated graphics lack MXM
> slots, and it is even more likely that such notebooks at least lack the
> required cooling solutions.
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When I use Audacity, why does every plugin show up twice in the
effects list? Looking on my hard drive it looks like the plugins are
only installed in one place, /usr/lib/ladspa, and they all come from
either swh-plugins-0.4.14-1mdk or tap-plugins-0.7.0-2mdk.
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