[mythtv-users] Standard PCI VDPAU-capable Video Cards vs. PCIExpress

[Brian Wood]

On Sunday, November 28, 2010 10:17:15 am Robert Longbottom wrote:

> 
> I have a pci gs8400 card (I think that's the right chipset number)
> from Sparkle. That's in an old ish Pentium 4 something or other.
> I've used it in the past as a second frontend. It was incapable of
> playing hd without vdpau, but with the pci card and vdpau it works
> fine.

> 
> The only issue that I had was that I had to leave the old graphics
> card in there as well or the system wouldnt boot at all. It's like
> it can't handle booting from the sparkle card for some reason. This
> was / is a bit of a pain because it means you get nothing on the
> screen until X starts. (unless I unplug the monitor and plug it into
> the graphics card!) But once you have everything up and running it
> works flawlessly.

How about the OSDs? Are they OK?

May I ask what mobo you are using? Most of them have a BIOS setting to 
tell it what graphics card to use first, this might correct the booting 
problem.

But I could certainly put up with no video until X is running if I had 
to. I'm mainly just trying to get some use out of "obsolete" equipment.

Thanks for the input.