[mythtv-users] PCI Videocard on ITX

Zagaroth zagaroth at wave.co.nz
Sun Oct 26 22:34:21 EST 2003


The internal video card is fast enoth... and once the MPEG2 decoder is
turned on it
flys. But if you want to use DVI outputs your going to have to change to a
different
card. I don't know if u can use the hardware MPEG2 decoder if ur using a
differnet
video card. Try it and find out.
-Laurence

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rasmus Hildonen" <rasmus at werket.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PCI Videocard on ITX


> Is it better to use another videocard or is the internal fast enough??
> R.
>
> On 26. okt. 2003, at 02.40, Zagaroth wrote:
>
> > There is a option somewhere in the BIOS as to which boots first, the
> > AGP or
> > the PCI. So
> > yes you can do it as i had a old GeForce4 card in mine for awhile.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Aran Cox" <spin at avalon.net>
> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 8:26 AM
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PCI Videocard on ITX
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:22, Rasmus wrote:
> >>> På 10/23/2003, "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> skrev:
> >>>> course, depending on the board, if you've only got 1 PCI slot, where
> >>>> would you put the tuner card?
> >>>>
> >>> I'm planning to use 2xPCI raiser-card, so I will have slots for
> >>> both...
> >>>
> >>> My problem is that I want to use a widescreenmonitor with DVI on the
> > ITX..
> >>>
> >>> Think I'll buy the stuff and pray to the X11-daemaon that it will
> >>> work..
> >>>  ;-)
> >>>
> >>> thanks for answering so fast!
> >>>
> >>> Rasmus
> >>
> >> I tried putting an old PCI videocard in a relatively new backend
> >> system,
> >> and the video refused to come up.  There were no options in my BIOS
> >> about using PCI video, disabling AGP, etc.  Good luck!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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