Re: [gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

2012-07-17 Thread Kilian Zott
thats a strange comparison since usb is a serial bus vga is not even digital, so how can you talk about throughput? lol 2012/7/16 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi there, On 02/15/2012 09:14 PM, gk wrote:

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

2012-07-17 Thread frares
Em , Kilian Zott kil...@diezotts.de escreveu: thats a strange comparison since usb is a serial busvga is not even digital, so how can you talk about throughput? lol 2012/7/16 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

2012-07-17 Thread Kilian Zott
You could compare the frame rate, but an analog signal cant be compared to a digital signal ^^ if you resolute your analog voltage in 8 bit (256 steps each subpixel, so 24bit color depth) you get some offset on the transmission so you could not use an analog interface in order to transmit data

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

2012-07-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Kilian Zott kil...@diezotts.de wrote: thats a strange comparison since usb is a serial bus vga is not even digital, so how can you talk about throughput? lol Information doesn't need to be digital. Terms like 'bandwidth' really do apply. VGA does place some

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

2012-07-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Kilian Zott kil...@diezotts.de wrote: You could compare the frame rate, but an analog signal cant be compared to a digital signal ^^ if you resolute your analog voltage in 8 bit (256 steps each subpixel, so 24bit color depth) you get some offset on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

2012-07-15 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hi there, On 02/15/2012 09:14 PM, gk wrote: Hallo I used one some time ago, and it worked but very slow. The label only says made in China. lsusb output is: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0711:0900 Magic Control Technology Corp. SVGA Adapter The Kernel module which is loaded is: sisusbvga If

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

2012-07-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi there, On 02/15/2012 09:14 PM, gk wrote: Hallo I used one some time ago, and it worked but very slow. The label only says made in China. lsusb output is: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0711:0900 Magic Control Technology

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

2012-02-15 Thread gk
Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012, 23:19:56 schrieb Sebastian Pipping: Hello, I would love to use two external displays with my notebook. I have seen USB graphics cards on the net and was wondering if anyone around here has tried to run such a thing with Linux. If it worked for you I'd be