[geeks] Intel D201GLY (mini-ITX) video success

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:52:19PM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
> >Date: 2008/02/08 Fri PM 01:48:02 CST
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Intel D201GLY (mini-ITX) video success
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >What about speed?  The last time I tried vesa mode on a card was
> >dreadfully slow at redrawing programs like firefox or playing video.
> 
> Seemed OK with some quick browsing - when things seemed slow, it
> wasn't obvious if the problem was the Celeron CPU or the video. The
> video was not horrible at all. I am sure it could do better than the
> vesa driver, but for occasional desktop use, it's fine. My interest is
> to have a suitable 1280x1024 desktop for occasional GUI administration
> or for having several xterms running, not as a primary desktop - for
> this type of application, the board/driver seems fine. 

Oh sure, that probably is fine.  You said desktop and I assumed you
meant something like mainly web surfing and flash type things (along
with possible office apps).

> >http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=CA4842002&cmp=AFC-CJ_CBIT#
> >
> >Have you looked at that?  This is not the board from the gOS machines.
> >Instead of 2 PCI slots, it is 1 PCI slot and 1 PCI-e slot (16x physical
> >it looks like).
> >
> >I really like the looks of that board.  I especially like that it should
> >work with an ATI x300-x850 or Geforce 7x00.
> 
> I have the board in a case, I've played with it a bit, it seems
> reasonable, but nothing spectacular. It has one PCi slot and one
> PCI-Express 16x slot. It is an OK desktop board/CPU combo (I think I
> put Ubuntu on it without incident, but I haven't powered it up for a
> few weeks)... 

Erm, if you have both, why do you prefer the LV?  Am I missing something
bad about the Via board?