[mythtv-users] Worlds most craptacular GF card (Hardware Warning)

[Patrick Benton]

Are you using the stock video drivers, or did you install the official  
ones from Nvida?

On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 11:04 PM, Rob Snow wrote:

> So I was building a new Linux box and decided to use a cheap MX type  
> card on it as
> it will probably do everything I want...just some videos, light 3d  
> just to see it work, etc.
>
> I purchased a Apollo MX440SE 64MB SDRAM card from newegg for $46, just  
> the
> bill...cheap and reasonable performance....
>
> What a piece of shit, the card has a improper PCI ID (0x171, should be  
> 0x173) and
> runs HORRIBLE.  Quake2 runs at ~30fps maximum, glxgears runs around  
> 650fps,
> MythTV gets pissed and hangs after a few seconds or a minute if I put  
> it in window
> mode.
>
> Just for grins I put my 4200 in the same box while trying to debug:  
> glxgears =
> 5500fps, Quake2 = 175fps and MythTV works (mostly).
>
> I had seen people getting ~2Kfps in glxgears with MX cards and figured  
> that was
> enough horsepower for puttering around....this ain't that card....   
> The worst part is that
> I must have thrown the original box out over the last couple of days  
> and now I'm
> guessing I'm stuck with it.  I'll try newegg support out, but it would  
> be a miracle if they
> took it back.
>
> Product Link:
> http://www.newegg.com/app/ 
> viewproduct.asp?DEPA=&submit=Go&description=apollo+440+SDR+1.3
>
> Be warned,
> Rob
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at snowman.net
> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>