> Von: Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Datum: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:40:35 +0800 > > On 10/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > It's an ECS K8M800-M2, a micro-ATX, socket 754 board > > with onboard unichrome video that only works as far as I > > can tell under the VESA XOrg driver. There's ongoing > > development, however, at http://unichrome.sf.net. > > I have used that driver. My current chipset is a VIA > PM800/VT8236 (Biostar PM4VMA-M). It lacked some features > like Gamma Correction so I couldn't use it. > > > I'm not a fragfreak. But I find the Radeon 7000 to be > > well supported by current Debian Xorg packages. At least > > they're good enough for for my favorite games: Planet > > Penguin Racer (aka Tuxracer), Crack Attack, and > > NeverBall. In the past I had to install some unofficial > > packages (from a Debian developer). > > Neither am I a gamer... but I got the FX5500 for the DVI > as it's the cheapest current card with DVI output. Really? I checked my PC Xpress pricelist of 19. October. It shows PowerColor branded 9250's ranging from PHP 2,000 to PHP 3,100. The "PowerColor ATI 9250 128ddr dvi 128bit" (the description in the pricelist) costs PHP 2,300. On the other hand the "Inno3D FX5500 128ddr tv-dvi 8x 128bit" costs PHP 3,000. The 9250 is either cheaper or there isn't much difference in price between cards made from the competing GPUs. > > I have only one drive, but I tend to schedule my burning > > sessions when I'm away from the computer (e.g. eating > > dinner). And I tend to burn only at 2.5x (DVD+RW) since > > 4-8x burns tend to be partly unreadable in plain DVD (or > > combo) readers. BTW it's the first time I came across > > the acronym PATA (smells icky ;-). > > I see. That would be a productivity hit for me. You either don't eat or are burning too many DVDs ;-). > I'm looking forward to burning at 16X while doing normal > work. That would need a dedicated drive to feed the DVD > writer. Have you tried reading the DVD+/-R's you already burn at greater than 4x on plain reader units, i.e., pure DVD-ROM or combo drives? My tests with various DVD+/-R/W media aren't very encouraging. My basic tests involve (a) checking the files I burned with their MD5SUM or SHA1SUM and (b) reading the raw DVD data back with: $ readcd sectors=1-`isoinfo -d -i /dev/hdd \ | sed '/^Volume size/! d ; s/.*: //'` (*For some reason, readcd cannot detect the end of the DVD data stream, so I have to specify the "length" of the data to read given by isoinfo.) I've also tried with dvdisaster (dvdisaster.com). Some of the data either cannot be read at all or can be read only by the special programs. My DVD writer is a LiteOn DVDRW LDW-851S capable of burning 8x DVD+R's. My DVD reader is also a LiteOn, a 16x/48x DVDROM/CD-RW drive bought within the last two years. I use mostly RiData DVD+R 8x blanks.
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